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...that I can only see his over-sized helmet and spastically jerking hands, the driver comes down-shifting through the turn and accelerates down a short straight and out of our vision. Nestled in bladders of gasoline, his is a desperate, faceless struggle to control such a hell-bent machine as it screams toward pure speed. Peter Revson's helmet was painted into a big toothy smile, but he died setting a track record in South America. So far there have been no accidents this weekend. All at once I hear the crickets' song. The heat is over. From...
...such a gush of purple journalism hell-bent on convincing us that the heirs of Mack Sennett, Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin are a few MTM situation comedies...
What emerges from this discussion of the current situation is a university administration, led by its president, hell-bent on betraying Black people and their democratic rights to the forces within the faculty and administration that voted against the Afro-American Studies Department in 1969. Equality of access to educational resources did not mean then nor does it mean now access to a classroom in which Black history is absent or denigrated. Equality has always meant the right to determine a program of education best suited to the needs of a given community. It is this right which was voted...
ACORN, for better or worse, is not just a group of hepped-up environmentalists hell-bent on saving the beauty that is Arkansas. The group describes itself as a state-wide collective of middle-and low-income families concerned with the "preservation and enhancement of the quality of life" in Arkansas. Actually, ACORN is a group of 35 different community organizations with 35 different problems. The environment is a concern for each group in the same way breathing is a concern for human beings: it's a given...
...sense. The Israelis' calculated campaign of attrition may or may not ultimately discourage the implacable zealots of Al-Fatah or Black September. On the other hand, there is ample proof that the most recent displays of belligerence have discouraged Arab moderates. Many feel that the Israelis are hell-bent on a course of Zionist aggression and are beginning to think that maybe the Palestinians were right all along. "Now it's hopeless," concludes the editor of one Beirut newspaper. "I don't think Israel wants peace...