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...seems to capture the right balance of character and lack of identity. Robinson is black, and the idea of a black Vladimir is stunning and certainly feasible. However, it is mind-boggling that Estragon's speech describing Vladimir's world view as "black" clicits from Robinson a clenched, upraised fist. Moreover, such a gesture is tasteless in context...
When he saw me, he smiled and chanted, in Chinese, "Long live Mao Tse-tung!" As he chanted he punched through the sky with his right fist three times...
...enough to put them in command of the local elections next November. The veteran white sheriff, Bill Lee, is so worried that he has publicly embraced S.C.L.C. President Ralph Abernathy and posed for pictures with S.C.L.C. Leader Hosea Williams, who showed him how to give the "soul power" clenched-fist salute. The sheriff needs, he says, "about 1,000 nigger votes" to win. In Tuskegee, Ala., blacks now control elections, and white politicians are asking blacks to work with, rather than against, them. "Until blacks got the majority vote, there were perhaps only three whites in this whole town calling...
When he saw me, he smiled and chanted, in Chinese. "Long live Mao Tse-tung!" As he chanted he punched through the sky with his right fist three times...
...like a clenched fist at a garden party. Discreet ads presented their accustomed celebration of the good life. Rolls-Royces at $31,600. Bracelets at $1,200 each ("Two will give you a beautiful necklace"). The cartoons included the customary chuckle at suburbia. White space set off John Updike's latest four-line poem, "Upon Shaving Off One's Beard." But leading off last week's "Talk of the Town" section, with Eustace Tilley presiding at the top of the page as usual, was the sternest editorial The New Yorker has ever...