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...truth is that good food in America is little more than a memory and a hope," claim the authors in their introduction, entitled "The Rape of the Palate." "We were one of the best-fed countries in the world; we have become one of the poorest." This tragedy, according to the Hesses, is as much the result of myths which Americans have been led to believe as it is the consequence of modern methods of mass food production. The high priests of gourmandise and nutrition--home economists, restaurant critics, cookbook writers, food historians, FDA officials--have all contributed...
...consistent with the ideology of this country that William Worthy isn't a household name in America," Badi G. Foster, visiting associate professor of Afro-American Studies recently told his seminar on media and political development in Afro-American communities. However Worthy's recent book, The Rape of Our Neighborhoods, may finally cause America to take notice of the 56-year old journalist who terms his political philosophy, "Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Militarist, Anti-Imperialist...
...Worthy never entered the political arena. He says he would have to deeply analyze himself for a complete answer, but he says that he never wanted to be overwhelmed by a particular political movement. Instead, journalism and academia became his conduits for change. With the publication of The Rape Of Our Neighborhoods, perhaps America will start responding to Worthy's prose. If they do they might discover the truth in the words of Kenneth B. Clark: "The Bill Worthys of our society provide the moral fuel necessary to prevent the flickering conscience of our society from going...
Throughout this country, more often than not unknown to one another, small, heterogenous bands of people, moral guerrillas, are resisting mighty institutions that, in the name of healing, or expanded space to worship God, or higher education, or more rapid transit routes, or just more and more hamburgers, would rape their communities...
...Rape of Our Neighborhoods alerts potential victims--us--to the tricks and coercions that precede institutional assaults on neighborhoods by hospitals, churches, universities, mass transit authorities, and businesses. It links the easy victories of many of these local assaults to a state of mind among the citizenry that also made Watergate and Viet Nam possible. But basically the book provides hints on 'how to do it,' how to resist...