And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.īut 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.
Martin Luther King Jr.: Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. National Archives/Hulton Archive via Getty Images and other civil rights leaders gather before a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. Maybe so, but one wishes that the authentic details had been told with genuine passion.
Nor is it any surprise that psychiatrist Gilbert Keller, spurred on by personal as well as professional longings, takes Allison apart and puts her back together the right way-or does he? A prefatory sentence says the novel is based on real cases. We never doubt that goodhearted lawyer David Singer will convince hostile judge Tessa Williams that, yes, multiple personality disorder happens, and that, morally and legally, it separates the doer from the deed. We finger the serial murderer all too quickly, just as we know before we know that Ashley's creepy physician father, Steven, abused her as a child. Despite gory crime scene depictions, the old master, uncharacteristically, has left out the suspense and the layers of feeling. Perennial bestseller Sheldon (The Best Laid Plans) doesn't get under the reader's skin here as he does at his best, even though he weaves together many of his time-tested elements-childhood horror and its consequences lust and murder as bedfellows a pretty, hapless heroine good men in the legal and medical professions trying to undo the wrongs done by others.
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