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...about whites, and possess a built-in reality adjuster that makes all the necessary corrections and allowances for exaggeration and stupidity when whites are being portrayed. Blacks know something about whites too. But whites in the U.S. still do not know all that much about blacks; most whites pos sess no automatic focus mechanism to tell them what is nonsense and what is not. Whites receiving a brutalized, stupid or stereotyped image of blacks through TV are liable to tell them selves, "Why, yes. that's the way blacks...
...undiluted pleasures of the Bicentennial year has been the multiple revivals of the plays of Tennessee Williams. The best of these dramas pos sess poetic eloquence, humanistic compassion and arresting vitality. It is to be hoped that one of these years the judges in Stockholm will confer upon Williams the Nobel Prize for Literature, which has been accorded to only one U.S. play wright, Eugene O'Neill...
...Cuban army officers who had staged the coup d'état, General Herrera waited only for Congress to rush through a bill permitting him to hand the Provisional Presidency over to a "civilian neutral" and retired Cuban diplomat, quiet, scholarly, short-statured Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (pronounced "Sess-pay-dess...
References: Lodge Bill 55th Congress 2nd Sess, S. 112; Lodge's Report; N. American Rev., 165, p. 393; CRIMSON...
References: Bryce, Am. Commonwealth I, 134-138; Smith Const. Manual and Digest, 52 Cong. 1 sess. '92; Lalor; Cyclopaedia III, 91; Hart, Practical Essays I, 1-19; No. Am. R. 150: 390-400; Nation 63; 198; ibid...