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...only the novice and insecure student who fought these creeping realizations. In fact it seems that the most successful, scholarly ones were particularly sensitive to the conflicts. In feeling that they were being asked to give up their Blackness, or redness or brownness or yellowness in exchange for this torment, their Blackness or whatever, assumed in many cases a new, strange and deeper meaning. Whatever it meant, many decided then and there that whatever happened, they would not give it up or reject all that had gone into its formation...
Updike's latest book, Marry Me, is set in 1962, in pre-assassination America. As the protagonist suggests, it is "the twilight of the old morality, and there's just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in." The old confrontations--East vs. West, black vs. white--are reaching a head, and no one can know what the resolutions will...
...Rhode Island, but don't be surprised if you see him muttering some choice words about his home state under his new Fu Manchu moustache. Rhode Island began plaguing him earlier this month when several players suffered injuries at the St. George's School training camp, and the torment continued Saturday in Kingston as a strong University of Rhode Island club downed the Crimson...
...attacking the Ford Administration. "We have been governed by veto too long," he said. "We have suffered enough at the hands of a tired and worn-out Administration without new ideas, without youth or vitality, without vision, and without the confidence of the American people." After "a time of torment," he argued, "it is now a time for healing. It is time for the people to run the Government and not the other way around." Next year, Carter predicted, "we are going to have that new leadership," adding in a frequent ad lib to his text: "You can depend...
...possessed extraordinary skill at getting what he wanted by wanting only what seemed good for the country. Like nearly every Washington biographer, Cunliffe compares the man's virtues to those of ancient Rome: "As for ambition-gloria -it is conceived as a civic impulse, not a private torment ... Washington's desire to be well thought of is a classical desire not in the least akin to the populist, other-directed anxiousness that renders prominent men of the present day so susceptible to the idea of public opinion...