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...another aspect of this controversy which has not received adequate attention. Kilson's criticisms are rooted in a vision of politics and culture from an earlier generation of intellectuals whose political life was, unlike these "Jack and Jill" revolutionaries, learned and serious. It was a vision shaped in the shadow of eminent black scholars such as Horace Mann Bond, Oliver Cox, Rayford Logan and St. Clair Drake, Kilson is from a later generation of intellectuals who stood their ground as young black radicals during the McCarthy era and as a consequence know only too well that real politics requires intellectual...
...plea to every major league player last week to volunteer for urinalysis. Throughout an unusual address, as amazing as any ever delivered in the cause of image repair, alarm bells were ringing: "Baseball is on trial." "Baseball is in trouble." "A cloud called drugs is permeating our game." "The shadow is growing larger and darker by the day." "Stop this menace." At risk and at stake are "a generation of kids" and "a decade of baseball being synonymous with drugs." "We cannot let the season conclude without attacking the problem." "This is baseball's last chance...
...first starring role at Dublin's Gate Theater; 18 when he toured the U.S. as Mercutio in Katharine Cornell's version of Romeo and Juliet; 20 when he wowed New York by staging an all-black Macbeth; 22 when he became the celebrated radio voice of Lamont Cranston ("The Shadow knows!"); 23 when he touched off a national panic with his broadcast of a Martian invasion in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Invited to Hollywood to do pretty much as he pleased, he started out by creating one of the best films ever made, Citizen Kane, which he starred...
Welles' recollections include not only the famous triumphs but tales about private lives in the world of show business. Like what happened the first time he attempted adultery. The romantic atmosphere was broken when, over the hotel-room radio, he heard himself as the Shadow, asking the familiar and all too relevant question: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts...
Within the government, Hernu alone denied the revelations, expressing "indignation" at what he called "a campaign of calumny against the French military." He insinuated that the campaign was part of a foreign plot against France's nuclear ambitions. Said Hernu: "I know well that in the shadow zones of this affair there is malice." Hernu pledged that if he had been "disobeyed or lied to," then the government would be asked to draw the proper conclusions...