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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Americans, Americans are seeking something from him. Politicians hurry to pose with him, community leaders draw inspiration -- and status -- from his proximity, longtime antiapartheid activists take satisfaction from the mere sight of him. For a sometimes dispirited American civil rights coalition, Mandela provides, as he has before, a rallying point and common cause. For the many blacks who have begun to call themselves African Americans, he is a flesh-and-blood exemplar of what an African can be. For Americans of all colors, weary of their nation's perennial racial standoffs, his visit offers the opportunity for a full-throated...
There was also some concern within Mandela's entourage that certain American politicians would take advantage of his presence and upstage him. At the top of the list was Jesse Jackson, who had a way of getting into camera range at nearly every point along Mandela's New York route. The New York-based organizers of the Harlem rally made a point of keeping Jackson off the list of speakers, despite his best efforts to be added to the program. It didn't help when the master of ceremonies told the crowd, "I know for many...
...civil rights agenda with indifference, if not outright hostility, and the movement had become fractured over intractable disagreements about increasingly abstract concerns like affirmative action. By comparison, apartheid was an issue as clear-cut and compelling -- and televisable -- as a segregated lunch counter in Birmingham. It offered a focal point for the inchoate resentments many felt of the greed and selfishness spawned during the Reagan years...
...When you come to the point when both sides areunhappy, it's probably a good compromise," shesaid.CrimsonAli F. ZaidiSHARRHAN and JONATHAN play their "Flute andSynthesizer Meditations," and add a mystical airto Harvard Square's atmosphere of diversity...
...fiction (The Cement Garden), as well as a few sentimental excursions (The Child in Time), has written a blueprint for the future of the genre. The key is not in nostalgia, evoking the bleak era when real men wore raincoats, but in the brisk assumption of a '90s vantage point, leaving the author free to make all kinds of moral and social comments -- rather like choreographing the doings at an ant farm...