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Many blacks think that they must now reject all of their white friends?the Jew among them???in order to discover themselves. As a result, an ominous current of anti-Semitism has appeared to widen the breach between them and the Jew. While this ancient virus infects only a small fraction of the country's 22 million Negroes, the Jew knows from bitter experience that it can spread with distressing rapidity. At the same time, some latent anti-black feelings have come to the fore among Jews?symbolized by the half-casual, half-contemptuous Yiddish reference to the "schvartzes" (blacks...
There must be. Most of mankind's religions and philosophies are aimed at steeling humans for the ultimate loss, plus the lesser defeats that lead up to it. Most of the authenticated sages?quite a few losers among them??? emphasize a very ancient idea: because the loser alone controls his attitude, he can always change that attitude and regard defeat as unimportant. "Our life," wrote Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor-philosopher, "is what our thoughts make...
...Tigers' last pennant: "Again this fall, when a mass neurosis settled on us and the whole town seemed gripped by a home front battle fatigue in which energies went limp, tempers shortened and all reason fled, the athletes came through. We needed a miracle, and this the Tigers?bless them???provided...
Many of the attacking units, like the one that hit the U.S. embassy, were avowedly suicidal; few of them, even when they did seize towns or installations, managed to hold them for long. Some were promised reinforcements within 48 hours?and never got them???or were given food and ammunition for only five days of foray. Such recklessness of life deprived the Communists of some of their best men, since in many cases the attackers were highly trained demolition experts or battlewise guerrillas...
Duplex Diplomacy. Did he mean it? As at least token proof, Russian-made MIGs?more than 100 of them???have arrived in the U.A.R. and Syria to begin replacing the estimated 400 planes destroyed by Israel. Another Cairo arrival was Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny, the third man, with Kosygin and Brezhnev, in the Kremlin's collegial leadership. "The imperialists and their agents imagine that we have come here to exchange small talk," Podgorny told President Gamal Abdel Nasser. "But we will prove to them that we have come here for more than talk. We have come here to frustrate...