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...article says "the spectators in the orchestra section--exclusively members of the BSA and other sponsoring organizations--cheered Jeffries' views met applause, endorsement and approval from most-if not all--of the `sun people" in the orchestra." The article creates a false impression by failing to mention that Jeffries presented a toned-down and conciliatory speech. He focused on his rather feeble scholarship in the field of Black history, but also found the time to mention that he had ancestors and friends who weren't Black. He even claimed to have been part of a Jewish fraternity in his college...
...Winter Games, in any case, have always been the Cinderella Games, the odd Games out; a poor sister, it sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which...
Deutsch Incorporated, an advertising agency, recently ran television ads for New York City Pontiac dealers featuring the words of Yoshio Sakurauchi, a Japanese politican who made disparaging remarks about the quality and motivation of American workers. Sakurauchi's comments were set against the menacing background of a rising sun--hardly a subtle allusion...
There was an orchestra section and a mezzanine section. Hah-vahd and Harvard. Sun and ice. Cheering and hissing. The spoken to and the spoken...
Applause was directed not at his melanin but at his message. In no uncertain terms, Jeffries views met applause, approval and endorsement from most--if not all--of the "sun people" in the orchestra...