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Cruse said a resurgence of Black intellectualism would require a "conscious community of intellectuals who are committed at an institutional level to create new lines of communication." But Cruse said the fact that such a development is "not in sight" is partly due to the fact that Black elites coming out of the major universities like Harvard and Yale are isolated from the general Black population...
Within the memory of our oldest citizens, most Americans lived and died in small, close-knit communities. Residents knew each other, by name or by sight. Anonymity was unusual. A mother in the park was unafraid to scold the mischievous child; she knew his parents. A suspicious-looking stranger in town--or on the block--drew vigilant stares; the community knew its members and its mores...
Seems the situation in Solong is rather precarious, what with the Sultan fainting at the sight of women, and thus not likely to perpetuate his accidental reign, and his evil Grand Vizier Ahab Younow (Nicholas Weir) lusting for his position...
...little coaxing to make the shy Sultan appear. He's a neurotic misanthrope after Woody Allen's heart. Even the Sultan's charmingly innocent daughter, Dahlia Prayer (Steve Lyne), is too frightening for him. The dippy Dahlia dances in with a string of cutout paper dolls, ecstatic at the sight of Alma and Gwen, whom she's already pegged as playmates. Maybe they can even talk about boys, whom she's never seen. "Do they really have horrible steel buzz-saw blades in their pants, like Daddy told me?" she asks...
...ARRIVED IN SANTIAGO, Chile with my father on Dec. 15, 1985, at 1:30 a.m. The first sight that greeted us as we emerged from the airport was a sign looming above that read, "Chile progresses in peace and order...