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White Hunter Buncher is scarcely a 20th century Natty Bumppo. When an accustomed signpost is missing along the well-rutted safari track, he gets lost and drives the party a whole day's journey off course into the veld. As drawn by Tiny, the White Hunter barely has brains enough to come in out of the rain. ("Bit of a mist, what?") With the constant physical discomforts and the incessant comic relief of The Nylon Safari, it sometimes seems that the grandeur and excitement of Africa itself rarely caught Tiny Cloete's eye. The Cloetes' closest brush...
This scene bustles with false, as well as real, progress. The "protest" novel, as Author Baldwin sees it, is a signpost of false progress: "So far from being disturbing [it] is an accepted and comforting aspect of the American scene . . . We receive a very definite thrill of virtue from the fact that we are reading such a book at all . . . 'As long as such books are being published,' an American liberal once said to me, 'everything will be all right.' " Far from dignifying the humanity that lies more than skin-deep, these books straitjacket the Negro...
Even before Johnny is in kindergarten, his parents anxiously tick off each signpost of normality, and once he is in school, his teachers want him above all to integrate, to be as well-rounded and easy-to-handle as an apple. As he grows older, the boy can be measured scientifically so he will continue to be a round peg in a round hole. For example, a test will undertake to show not only how good a scientist he might become, but also how likely he is to betray his country. If he wants to be a journalist...
...delicately wrought signpost to the spiritual life is a small book, apparently written some time in the mid-19th century and published in Russian under the title: Candid Narratives of a Pilgrim to His Spiritual Father. Its author is unknown, its exact date uncertain. It made its first appearance in manuscript form in the hands of one of the famed monks of Mount Athos. The abbot of St. Michael's Monastery at Kazan, Russia, discovered it, copied it, and it appeared in 1884. Though one of the classics of Russian Orthodoxy that sounds a note often heard in Tolstoy...
...forces. Ground observers were alerted and fighter squadrons ordered to scramble to the defense of their zones. Operation Tailwind, involving some 1,600 aircraft and thousands of ground personnel, was the second major test of the continent's northern air defenses. Unlike last year's Exercise Signpost, it produced no fatal accidents. When the enormous amount of data from written reports and the photographic records of gun cameras has been assembled and analyzed, experts will write a top-secret report evaluating the readiness of North Americans to defend themselves against sneak attack...