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...easy to evoke for white readers the pace of Harlem life, or to clarify for them the attitude of a man who has emerged from the ghetto. To do so, even before the most sympathetic of audiences, Baldwin must adopt an unfamiliar mode of writing, must continually attempt to find new ways of expressing old thoughts--and then must pray for an intelligent reading and an adaptable audience...
Once black, he becomes frightened by what he had done. He is appalled by the unfamiliar reflection he finds in a mirror, frightened to be in a world so utterly cut off from his wife and children. He realizes that his appearance would terrify his family. "My inclination was to fight against it. I knew now that there is no such thing as a disguised white man.... The black man is wholly a Negro, regardless of what he might once have been. I was a newly created Negro who must go out that door and live in a world wholly...
...Considering the chaotic state of Guinea's economy, the price is cheap. Unschooled in modern economics, Touré sought overnight industrialization, instead got overnight bankruptcy. Though he had $92 million in Soviet-bloc credits and the help of 1,200 Red advisers, they were totally unfamiliar with Africa and proved to be of little help. On Conakry's docks, Soviet snowplows still glint in the savage tropical sun, monumental reminders of Red ineptitude...
Ever since the first computer began its ominous whirring, human beings have been hopefully reassuring one another that they still have a big lead over machines in the ability to learn from experience and to make decisions in unfamiliar situations. Last week in Chicago. Purdue University's Professor John E. Gibson, 36, warned the businessmen and scientists assembled for the National Electronics Conference that man's lead over the machine might soon be drastically narrowed. Working together with seven other Purdue professors and 60 graduate students, Gibson is preparing to "mate" an analogue computer, which solves mathematical problems...
...unconcerned as an old plow horse," said his groom. "He's shy and aloof, and at times he can be a bit uppity, but he can afford to be, now that he is a star." He certainly got star treatment; so that he would not have to tread unfamiliar soil, his trainer imported a truckload of clay for his stall from Goshen...