Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroes? More than half say they have none. Among the political leaders of the '60s, they most admire John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Eugene McCarthy. Among leaders now active, they approve of McCarthy, Senator Edmund Muskie, Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, Eldridge Cleaver and-of all people-Richard Nixon. Apparently convinced that he is sincerely trying to end the war and reform the draft, two out of three freshmen expressed respect for the President. But given the capacity of small student minorities to disrupt campuses and bedevil presidents, that vote of confidence in Nixon...
...flowering as a force in modern history with the existentialist movement, with the popularity of Kierkegaard, Dostoevesky, Sartre, Camus; and in this country (in some way) with Salinger; for blacks with Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the poetry of Le Roi Jones and the social criticism of Eldridge Cleaver; and in Southern literature with the heroes and anti-heros of William Faulkner...
...read you a passage from Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice which says something about what is to be communicated so that people really know that you think it matter's what happens to them. Cleaver writes: "You have tossed me a lifeline. If you only knew how I'd been drowning, how I'd considered that I'd gone down for the third time long ago, how I've kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore, how I sat in a rage that...
...Cleaver quotation contains a humanity that is different from the formal definition I gave a few seconds ago, but he might say, if asked to define humanity, that his version of it meant in some sense care, concern, and kindness. But we do not live by definitions, rather by the individual will and style that is a part of us, and by which we cope with the world and meet the people who come our way. I think the new sensibility asks that we talk to people in our offices or the Harvard dining halls sitting on the edge...
...chapter split in the fall of 1968 when non PL members left to form the Radical Student Union under the leadership of Bob Avakian. Avakian critcized PL for not supporting the sharpest struggles in the movement, such as those over open admissions. (PL was not involved in the Cleaver confrontation and later did not support the People's Park campaign...