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Bellow responded that a journalist had misunderstood that particular "piercing question" and noted that neither the Bulgarians nor the Americans have a Proust. Then he made the ornery outburst: "My critics, many of whom could not locate Papua New Guinea on the map, want to convict me of contempt for multiculturalism and defamation of the Third World. I am an elderly white male -- a Jew to boot. Ideal for their purposes...
...color. Down home, our unnamed hero is given a scholarship by the white gentry, then forced by these same burghers to fight other blacks blindfolded. Up North, he works in a paint factory; its metaphorical function is to whitewash the American experience into the American dream. He is the guinea pig of medical sadists and firebrand communists. He is the wary friend of "Ras the Destroyer," a prototype of black militancy...
...that TFs are really "teaching assistants" who do not have, and are not expected to have, as much knowledge about a subject as a full-time professor. Being a TF prepares graduate students for that far-off day when they will become professors; in a sense, undergraduates are the guinea pigs for the teaching techniques of rookie teachers...
Perry and Gerrard decided to call their duo Dead Can Dance when they saw a ritual mask from New Guinea. Says Perry: "The mask, though once a living part of a tree, is dead. Nevertheless, it has, through the artistry of its maker, been imbued with a life force of its own." Into the Labyrinth does not always carry so powerful a thrust, but its exotic elements fuse and cast a spell of breathless gravity...
With hitherto classified examples of cold war-era radiation tests on humans being revealed on a weekly basis, an appalled Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary said the government should compensate the victims. The department estimates that 800 people were purposely used as "nuclear guinea pigs" in an effort to study the effects of radiation. It is still not known how many of the subjects understood what was being done to them. Defense Secretary Les Aspin has ordered a review of all files on the issue, and Congress will hold hearings on the tests soon after it reconvenes this month...