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About Face. The trouble is that in the wake of the torrent of new arrivals from the West Indies, Pakistan and India before the bill was passed, the tolerance level among many Britons has become a good deal lower than it once was. Hence the fact that Labor's immigration policy has risen to plague the party-and particularly Patrick Gordon Walker. Until last October, the placid, pipe-smoking onetime Oxford history don had held a parliamentary seat from the racially mixed factory town of Smethwick. Then, during Britain's general election last October, Gordon Walker suddenly found...
...task of writing on a subject that interests nobody in a book that nobody will read, the candidate approaches his task with repugnance and he fulfills it often with loathing." But having suffered to earn his doctorate, the aspiring scholar must then publish or perish, thereby swelling the torrent of useless words...
...Specter. It was a chilling display, and its significance reached far beyond the Congo. "Even such a torrent of abuse of my country is of no consequence compared to the specter of racial antagonism and conflict raised in this chamber," said Stevenson. "I personally need no credentials as a spokesman for racial equality. I say that racial hatred, racial strife, has cursed the world for too long. I make no defense of the sins of the white race. But the antidote for white racism is not black racism...
...Presidents I admire most signed the Emancipation Proclamation 100 years ago," he said. "But emancipation was a proclamation and was not a fact. It shall be my purpose, and it is my duty, to make it a fact." With that, his audience rose and flooded the hall with a torrent of applause...
...Hungry Generation is a growing band of young Bengalis with tigers in their tanks. Somewhat unoriginally they insist that only in immediate physical pleasure do they find any meaning in life, and they blame modern society for their emptiness. On cheaply printed paper, they pour forth a torrent of starkly explicit erotic writings, most of them based on their own exploits ("In the Taj Mahal with My Sister") or on dreams. "My theme is me," says Hungry Poet Shaileshwar Ghose, 26, a schoolteacher. "I say what I feel. I feel frustration, hunger for love, hunger for food...