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However, there have always been voices, like Malcolm X's, that reject this vision. For them mainstream American values are inherently oppressive and racist, to be rejected at root. That leadership has tended to be fringe. It is fringe no longer. Farrakhan's audience and appeal are growing. This year he will for the first time run candidates for Congress. And his alliance with Barry, Stallings and others with Establishment credentials is steadily gaining him space at the political center of the black community...
...large stock of cognates, words that are spelled alike and mean the same thing -- for example, person, winter and arm. Plenty of words have only slight differences: if you're nervous in English, you're nervos in German. With a little imagination, one can find any number of common roots. Take, for example, the verb to smell: riechen, from the same root as the English reeks. The malodorousness does not exist in the German word, but the odor does...
...washed, yet highly saturated color Matisse developed in Morocco, one is grateful that the components of this phase of his work have at last been reunited. Matisse was a mature painter of 42 when he went to Morocco, but what he learned from the trip struck to the very root of his development as an artist. He was tempted to make a third trip but never...
...Augustine, the sod that is commonly used on the lawns of South and central Florida, the Gulf States and Southern California. But in contrast to the standard St. Augustine, which needs to be watered regularly, FX-10 (a cross of four African varieties) has an unusually deep root system -- deep enough to tap into subsurface moisture in some areas. That makes it perfect for places like Florida, where the water table typically lies no deeper than about 5 ft. Moreover, FX-10 seems to use the water it gets more efficiently than other St. Augustine varieties do. In the drought...
There has been plenty of method in the anti-NEA demagoguery. At its root lies a sense of lost momentum, a leakage of power, in the far American right. The cold war thawed out after 40 years and left its paladins standing with wet socks in the puddle. "And now what shall become of us, without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution." The words of the poet Constantine Cavafy -- shh! a Greek homosexual! -- apply quite well to the right's dilemma...