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...World) sang the praises of violence and provided numerous labor saints and martyrs. The great gangs that appeared in Chicago, New York and elsewhere in the 1920s were also social symptoms: not merely the fiefdoms of "little Caesars" bent on money and power, but the expression of a moral vacuum...
Dead-End Street. Newark's Negroes find plenty wrong with the city. Although Newark has two Negroes on its nine-man city council, neither was on hand to fill the ghetto's leadership vacuum during the riots: Councilman Irvine Turner was ill; Councilman Calvin West was in Boston for a convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The city has no civilian review board (Mayor Addonizio refers all charges of police brutality to the FBI). Nor did it have any Negro police officers above the rank of lieutenant before last week (when Addonizio hastily...
...priests, only "teachers," and virtually no theology. Crucial to its later stagnation was the fact it had no analogy to Christ's martyrdom, no sense of suffering in the Jewish pattern that might have prepared Moslems for adversity. Islam was an instant success. In the power vacuum left by the disintegration of the last remnants of Roman and Byzantine order, Mohammed's hard-riding followers quickly achieved one of the world's greatest military conquests. Armed with fast cavalry and such innovations as the stirrup (giving lancers leverage), Arabs swept east to India and west to France...
...cook, care for children, and clean a house," said Mrs. Dorothy Parrish, director of the Immigrant Program of the Women's Service Club. A recent survey shows that many girls whom employment agencies lure up north with promises of high wages and an easy life have never seen a vacuum cleaner before...
...lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is its caviar. Derived from a parasitic fungus that grows on rye, lysergic acid is mixed with volatile diethylamine (used in vulcanizing rubber), then frozen; the resulting LSD is extracted by using chloroform or benzine for fractional distillation, or else by means of a simple vacuum evaporator. Now available in pill form, or else as a soluble crystalline powder (the liquid-dunked sugar cubes of yesteryear are out), LSD produces an eight-to-twelve-hour trip highlighted by profound changes in thought, mood and activity. Colors become heightened, sounds take on preternatural shades of meaning...