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...before us." And thus he established a long and distinguished line of wrong, End of History-type pescimists who end up looking rather silly. One can safely assume that the doomsayers who make excuses for their own lack of creative genius by declaring an end to newness will be swept aside before long without our help. The effeteness of politics, however, is quite another issue...
...last week, all that was swept aside by the picture of black males urgently but peacefully demonstrating, in all senses of the word, their strength and capability. It was a mood that even Louis Farrakhan couldn't spoil. For the Nation of Islam leader who organized the march, its chief purpose may have been to simply prove that he was the man who could make it happen; he would then capitalize on the prominence he hoped it would confer. For most of those who attended, however, the main point was comradeship, pride and rededication to a few core values...
...SWEPT UP BY MULTITUDES, THE ONCE HOMELESS MAN from Chicago found himself pressed against the transfiguration in Washington: the spectacle of strangers suddenly united as friends. "Like, yes, we're free at last. It was something I kept having dreams about in the days before the march," says Earl Prince, 30, who helped get several dozen homeless Chicagoans on buses to Washington. In the crowd, he agreed to correspond with other black men from Virginia, from Detroit, from San Francisco. "I had no idea it would be as magnificent as it was," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Nelson of Virginia. Trained...
...park in the visitors' spaces next to the agency's office in Sparks. Soon after the bombing, Senator Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat whose support is centered in Las Vegas and Reno, decried the spreading ethos of defiance: "It is as if a sickness has swept our country." Whatever the diagnosis may be, nowhere are the symptoms more profound than...
ONSTAGE, KEITH JARRETT belies his cerebral, prickly reputation. Swept up in the trancelike flow of his jazz improvisations, he levitates from the piano stool like Jerry Lee Lewis, head thrust back and howling with pleasure. Beneath his fluid fingers, the keyboard ripples spontaneously, spinning out an endless series of riffs and variations, while his lyrical bassist, Gary Peacock, and elegant drummer, Jack DeJohnette, match him move for move. Heads nod approvingly as the melody is handed off from instrument to instrument, three men doing what they love best: making music with hand and heart...