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...Students Wake Up! We have another sin to expose," Ray Sherbill, one of the five "coordinators" for the National Student Conference Against Racism (NSCAR) announces in its keynote speech. From the red, white and blue bannered stage, James Meredith establishes the conference's tone. "This is a great opportunity to establish what the American consciousness is." And a massive, pro-busing march on May 17 proposed by Thomas Atkins, the head of NAACP in Boston, is the focal point of the conference...
...oldest comics, Little Orphan Annie, first drawn by Harold Gray in 1924, is also one of the most topical strips. Gray died in 1968; the strips that run today in 300 papers were all drawn by him during the Depression of the 1930s. "S'po sin' we are pretty hard up right now," Annie recently told her companion Ginger, a flower vendor, in a rerun of a Nov. 19, 1936 panel. "What of it?" Annie continues. "We know doggoned well we're not goin' to stay that...
...still deal in original sin," says a European arms trader. That somewhat mystical remark typifies the reputation of the arms trade, both within and without its own ranks. Arms salesmen apparently can never quite get over the fact that they are the heirs of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the archetypal death merchant who gave the trade its bad name. Bribing, cheating, lying fluently in eight languages and playing upon nations' fears of their neighbors, Zaharoff-as chief salesman for Britain's Vickers company-amassed a huge fortune by selling weapons to both sides in the Boer War, Balkan conflicts...
...hero: Fuseli raised this romantic chimera to a mock-religious pitch by proposing to fresco another Sistine in homage to Shakespeare. Only a few studies for this project survive; it was too grandiose and expensive to be carried out. His fixation on Michelangelo was such that when painting Sin, Pursued by Death (1794-96), one of the pictures he made to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost, Fuseli appropriated Michelangelo's Adam for the pose of Sin's voluptuous torso (see color page). That was about as unsuitable a use of the Sistine as one could imagine...
...settlement. Yet the Israelis seem to think that time is on their side and that they will benefit from the fact that the tempo of negotiations is bound to slow down as Washington heads toward an election year. "God is on the side of the patient. Impatience is a sin," said Allon last week, quoting an Arab saying, not least of all because of the possibility that a pro-Israeli Democratic candidate like Senator Henry Jackson...