

Prescience
Great writers have continued relevance and prescience. But then, maybe not much has really changed since 1963: "Behind what we think of as the Russian menace lies what we do no wish to face, and what white Americans do not face when they read a Negro reality- the fact that life is tragic. Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our