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...James Byars lives in a dreamworld, it is a complete and creative world. He is no philosopher, but he is no sham either, for he believes in his art and he convinces others to believe in it. Even if he treats questions and ideas as if they were mere objects, he delights in all of them as an artist delights in sights and sounds. He is an artist who receives and gives ideas and questions as if they were delicate dolls to be admired but not touched, lest they be broken, and, at the slightest suggestion that ideas...
...trial itself was indeed a sham. Four times the woman was asked if she could identify Emeka as the person who stole her purse; four times she refused. Why, after the first refusal, was the case not immediately dismissed? Why was this woman not even present at the arraignment to identify the accused? Why do our courts occupy time with such ludicrous cases? Perhaps race, after all, has something to do with this phenomenon. Certainly everyone who was in court that day (Nathan Berkovitz, incidentally, was not) to support Emeka left with the feeling that racism had thoroughly infiltrated...
...Katharine J. Kean) stands in her mother's salon, dressed in white, singing to her mute friend, Toby (Joseph Lee). The fun stops when Baba (Belle Linda Halpern) enters. This room and stage are clearly hers. Her dark eyebrows and dress match the black floors. In preparation for the sham seance. Monica hides behind a gauze screen where she can be the false voice of dead spirits, while Baba seats herself at the table...
...Palestinians point to the settlements policy as proof that the current autonomy talks are a sham, and that their refusal to participate is justified. "Whose land is this?" asked Hebron's Arab mayor, Fahd Qawasmi. "The Israelis announce this is their land. The U.S. says settlements are illegal. But the American government gives more and more money to Israel. Israel then builds more and more settlements. And they want me to be a party to the autonomy negotiations...
With growing apprehension, he read the outpourings of the New Left as they castigated U.S. democracy as a sham, belittled middle-class values and began to compare "Amerika" to Nazi Germany...