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Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar have compiled a bilingual Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry that transcends such simplistic, patronizing views of the East. The book is a collection of free verse written both in response to and outside the mainstream of modern Western literature, and the poems avoid the formal abstraction of neo-classical Arabic poetry while retaining its rich imagery. In general, they reflect the Western view that literature should reflect an artist's subjective response to the world about him rather than just a superficial description...
...after his unsuccessful trek around the state seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination four years ago, Teasdale hammered away at the Republican in debates and TV ads, painting him as a "corporate man" with ties to big-monied interests and a do-nothing chief executive "removed from the mainstream of life...
...succeed on the white man's terms?" When these students heard their home, their families, their people, their heritage thrown so heedlessly into the categories of "disadvantaged," "underprivileged," they began to feel that instead of being given an opportunity to learn and participate freely within the mainstream of society, as it was called, they were being asked to abandon, disassociate themselves from all that had formed and nourished them, to abandon all that for the dubious privilege of becoming an Afro-Saxon (a Black-white man.) And second class Black-white men at that. They began to distrust their "special...
Like millions of Americans, I wish Senator Humphrey [Oct. 18] well. I am sure that in not too many weeks the Senator will be back in the mainstream of life. His misfortune in needing radical bladder surgery, and having public attention called to it, may turn out to be good fortune for thousands of others...
Communist Party: Gus Hall is running for president on a platform that is not designed to attract mainstream businessmen, but then, that is not a group the Communist Party has ever sought to enlist. Hall, who ran for election in 1972, was originally a mine worker in Minnesota, and one of his most notable campaign slogans is, "You wouldn't elect your boss as shop steward. Why elect his stooge to public office...