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Moten said that the group chose to fast seven days to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1976 Soweto massacres, when South African security forces killed a large, unknown number of protesting Black students...
...talents and temperament, entirely correct. His unique value among his contemporaries proved to be the witness he could bear to his age and its possible consequences. His energy and imagination have been aroused most keenly by doubt, the sense that every act, individual and civic, leads perilously into the unknown. Looking backward is not the job such a mind performs best, as Ancient Evenings proves. The book is a gesture of obeisance to graven images and an abstract ideal, dutifully performed by an inherently disruptive spirit...
...news that Samoan society is not as peaceful and permissive as once thought is probably inevitable. Anthropologists once thought the! Kung San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert were a people for whom war and violence were unknown, but recent studies have revealed that they have a crime and suicide rate as high as that of many western countries. Moreover, several previous studies including at least one by an amateur anthropologist had concluded that Mead's picture was a little too rosy...
Uncaring, he sailed off to investigate Japan, newly opened after two centuries of isolation, and then took up the study of Chinese. Uncaring, he wandered through the South Seas, one of the first Americans to explore their remote islands as a private citizen. He savored delicacies unknown in Boston ("I like squid, to my astonishment, and rather enjoy banana soup"), and he also savored the half-naked girls who anointed themselves with coconut oil and gyrated around him in a dance called the Siva ("as superb a creature here as the world has to offer...
...plays brazened through the cliche barrier to make provocative comments on the battle between artistic integrity and professional survival. In Kent Broadhurst's lovely The Habitual Acceptance of the Near Enough, a Manhattan gallery owner (Frederic Major) instructs a brilliant, unknown painter (John C. Vennema) in the art of compromise; fortunately the lesson does not take. In Jeffrey Sweet's The Value of Names, Benny (Larry Block), a blacklisted actor who has revived his career on a TV sitcom, crosses rusty swords with Leo (Frederic Major again), the theater director who had testified against him before the House...