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...will and testament. The speeches and The Man and His Times, a gathering of recollections by people who knew Malcolm X, add subtlety and substance to it. Read in retrospect, they reveal Malcolm X as the most fascinating, convincing and, in some ways, the most measured speaker and thinker that the black militant movement has yet produced...
...Russell, more surely than any great thinker of our day, loved man and grieved for his folly. When he committed his feelings to paper-"Echoes of crics of pain revererate in my heart" -no one laughed. Moral statements having become the property of unct?ous rhetoricians and pious coniving presidents, we tend to hear them with skepticism and anger. Russell's words, however, rang true to almost everyone who heard, because they were complemented by a life style that was manifestly gentle, courageous, and loving...
...have read about homosexuals, perhaps you've even been one, so now you start to worry as this guy comes over and starts handling you. But you're a progressive thinker, and, Jesus, this guy's just had a different background, and now he has different tastes, and it's a free country after all. He doesn't mean any harm; he's putting his fingers through your hair because he likes you. What's wrong with that. So it comes as no surprise when you find yourself in the restroom enjoying...
...late father, an army general. She not only cherishes her father's pistols; she uses them, a symbolic and physical annexation of male prerogatives. As a very young woman, Hedda had been a kind of platonic muse to Eilert Lovborg (David Newman), a brilliant but dissolute writer and thinker. Out of temperamental fatigue ("I have danced practically all my life-and I was getting tired . . . My summer was up"), she has married an aunt-coddled pedant named Jorgen Tesman. She has moved from a danger that stirred her inner being to a safety that curdles her inner being. Lovborg...
...truly original thinker, Friedman is the author of a dazzling variety of ideas about how nations should cope with myriad matters of public policy. On the question of the international monetary system, Friedman for nearly two decades has been urging the adoption of freely moving exchange rates instead of fixed rates. Now, after a series of monetary crises and devaluations, central bankers in the U.S. and abroad are giving serious study to a modified form of the idea. As early as 1942, Friedman began advocating a negative income tax as a substitute for the nation's demeaning and generally ineffective...