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Mailer’s experiences may also justify the prophetic authority he claims at the book’s end. The dust-jacket has a red, white and blue color scheme, and after a history of literature’s decline and fall in America—culminating in the judgment that with Camp’s advent, “literature had then failed”—he writes, “Nothing less than a fresh vision of the ongoing and conceivably climactic war between God and the Devil can slake our moral thirst now that...
...crazy n---ers up to now?” Of course I’d heard racial slurs before, but the offhanded, public way in which it was said, and the way in which the same man smiled and nodded politely at me seconds later, as though my skin color and mere presence in the area connected me to his racism, shocked me more than the protest itself...
...dismayed at the absence of Spanish-language television and radio. Her best friend at Exeter was African American, and when the two would go to church every Sunday, little children would stare at them all through the service. “We were the only two people of color in the whole church. They were just intrigued,” she says good-naturedly. Still, Hernandez raves about Exeter’s academic and extracurricular opportunities, and says she felt welcomed and supported by the entire community...
...have to do is forward him your address, phone number, bank account and other personal details. Later, of course, you’ll have to sign some blank documents and send him a color photocopy of your passport, but no one mentions this up front. Eventually, if you succeed in jumping through all these hoops, the millions of dollars will be yours—once you fly to Nigeria and collect it in person...
...sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph", and as early as 1667 his predecessor, Michael Wigglesworth, had contended that God was color-blind: "Although Affliction tan the Skin, / Such saints are Beautiful within...