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Word: cleaver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yeah, that's the idea. Now you see how this is a direct attack on uni-sex. Women can't wear them, right? Take a look at what you guys are wearing. You're wearing sissy pants," Cleaver said...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...Cleaver took another sip of his wine and waited. He turned his head slowly. His face is striking mostly for its rich color and almost pliable quality of skin. At 39, he still seems to have a baby face. His eyes are distinctive in their brownness and almost quivering sensitivity. He has the thinnest eyebrows, and a thin moustache...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...That Cleaver is serious about the marketing of his pants seems clear. He has been awarded an international patent on the design and its many variations, and he fully expects not only to sell them around the world, but to have them on the covers of Vogue an Harper's Bazaar. He even speculated that every man in the United States will feel so compelled to buy the pants that the economic recession here will end overnight...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...Cleaver who is proposing this salvation for capitalist society--could he be the same who wrote, in the 1969 introduction to Jerry Rubin's Do It!, "I can unite with Jerry around hatred of pig judges, around hatred of capitalism, around the total desire to smash what is now the social order of the United States of Amerika...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...where do these pants fit in with the old image of Cleaver, rapist? In Soul on Ice, he wrote, "I became a rapist. To refine my technique and modus operandi, I started out by practicing on black girls in the ghetto--in the black ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the Evil of a day--and when I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically....Rape was an insurrectionary...

Author: By Mark Stillman, | Title: Eldridge Cleaver's New Pants | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

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