Volume 42, Number 19 · November 30, 1995
Heat Lightning
By Murray Kempton
The weeks since Louis Farrakhan's march on Washington have been notable for an absence of resonance. When we have so long, and vainly, held our collective breath for the crackling of thunder, we know that all we saw was heat lightning. The event was none the less significant, and especially so for the glare it cast upon the hardening of the national conscience across thirty-two years.
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