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...forgiving." As the book runs its course, there are endless realliances of romance and necessity, suicide attempts, fatal mishaps, missing persons, blackmail. Cutting from character to character in short sequences, the author builds suspense reliably and often ingeniously. In the end, however, only Ludwig, who must choose between "unreason and dishonor," seems to have faced a true crisis. In leaving Gracie and sailing home, he achieves integrity after a long struggle...
Some of the protests are clearly motivated by racism and unreason. Other objections, though, stem from parents' not unfounded fears that the buses will bring the corrosive problems of the ghettos to "their" schools, or take their children into the midst of the ghettos' often violent, crime-ridden culture. White parents fear that their children will be exposed to what blacks have learned to hate?the rapes, ripoffs, robberies and dope addiction that have turned all too many inner-city schools into blackboard jungles where learning is less important than learning how to survive. Beyond that, whites who have moved...
...revelation. Traditionally, black American dance students have been consistently steered away from classical ballet and toward the supposedly more "suitable" fields of modern, ethnic or Broadway-chorus dancing. The Harlem Dance Theater performances showed beyond doubt that the practice was based not on rhyme but on prejudiced unreason...
...have never been so fearful of rising crime, yet never so ready to challenge the institutions that try to cope with it. More sensitive to human rights than ever, more liberated in their own lives and outlooks, a growing number of citizens view prisons as a new symbol of unreason, another sign that too much in America has gone wrong...
...maintain and replenish the precious reserves of tolerance, if only with a quiet word here, a small action there. That may seem desperately inadequate against the fanaticism of both left and right, but the sum of many such words and actions may eventually sway the balance between reason and unreason. You can, above all, help redefine the meaning of American democracy, as it has been redefined in every generation since the founding. America is involved in an experiment with meaning for all the world: to discover whether it is possible to have a technological society that is also humane...