Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went through the garage of an unpretentious apartment building near the heart of Havana, went up six flights in a tiny elevator, and knocked on a heavy door. He was scrutinized through a two-way mirror, then admitted into the presence of Eldridge Cleaver-Black Panther leader, author and, for the past six months, one of America's most mysterious fugitives...
...find my apartment?" asked Cleaver, visibly startled. "Who told you I lived here?" The answers remained the secret of James Pringle, 31, Havana correspondent for Reuters. Pringle had apparently acted on a tip from someone close to or in Havana's small Black Panther exile colony...
...recently "fuck" has been thrown around publicly in all kinds of ways, and it has suffered accordingly. As Eldridge Cleaver and many others, including lots of young girls, openly exhorted us to fuck such undesirables as Reagan, Daley, and the Chicago police, the word began to lose both its masculinity and whatever juicy meaning it had left. It became, in effect, an extremely derogatory form of "damn." And now even that meaning is being diminished. People use "fuck" so freely, and so many respectable magazines have decided to print it wherever necessary, that at least one writer in Esquire...
...course at U.C.L.A. called "Racial Attitudes in America," taught by Gary B. Nash. The course examines American racial thinking from the first English contacts with Africans and Indians in the 16th century. It also includes an inquiry into the Kerner commission report and a reading list that includes Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, Gordon W. Allport's Nature of Prejudice and John Dollard's Caste and Class in a Southern Town...
Despite his improbable appendage and his charismatic leadership-he combines traces of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver-Smith as a character is most extraordinary for his recognizable human qualities and frailties. Behind Horn Smith's power and hatred there is a person who desperately needs the recognition and sympathy even of a self-consciously inadequate white priest. Yet the fact that Pratt and Smith somehow strike up something that can be construed as friendship is remarkable. The unusual results of their mutual "needs" raise the novel above the level of an otherwise purely allegorical tale...