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THERE IS an understanding that even the lightest skin cannot hide any traces of African blood from the eyes of another Black person. For Toni Morrison, this blood reveals itself as a ghost. She sees ghosts haunting each pair of eyes, coloring every Black man or woman's skin, ghosts that become, for Black people, a cloak and an identity. Toni Morrison must stare very hard and deep into the brown faces she sees, watching these ghosts so intently that they have become alive themselves and are often more vibrant than the human beings whose lives they influence...
...GHOSTS dreams and tales seduce Toni Morrison and release her inhibitions, making for some truly enchanting writing. She sees wonder in the strangest places, even traditionally non-haunted places like New York City which she can give a curious other-world quality...
...BABY by Toni Morrison...
...Christianity is also suspect because the church, while an instrument of salvation, is also an instrument of social containment, a taming device. The idea of home is elusive and treacherous, with one's home being traced either to a ghetto or to a Southern plantation or, as in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), into the past, where there are more dreams than roots. Is the U.S. itself home? That is no easy problem for a people from whom much of the country's bounty has been withheld, yet who are far more native sons than...
...Europeans have not been able to agree on a unified approach for battling the Japanese. In November, auto-industry representatives from France, Italy, Sweden, West Germany and Britain went to Tokyo to plead for export restraints. But at exactly the same time, Volkswagen Chairman Toni Schmücker was busy arranging an important deal with Nissan, maker of Datsuns, that could eventually lead to the production of up to 200,000 Volkswagens in Japan. Said one Volkswagen official: "I think there's an American saying for it: 'If you can't beat 'em, join...