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...poor and oppressed of the world therefore expect Americans to understand and support the struggles of other peoples to be free and united, even if freedom and unity cannot be won peacefully. We expect that America will be the last nation, not the first, to try to thwart, pervert or destroy the real independence of other nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Message to America from Tanzania's President Julius K. Nyerere | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...rule the world and brutalize its people thrive on ignorance, doubt and suspicion. Truth is radical; it works like water gently seeping, eating away at the structures of oppression. I no longer think of a university as necessarily a staging ground for the Kissingers; I think the Kissingers pervert the meaning of a university. My disgust for Harvard is no longer so general. It is directed at the Kissingers and the Bundys and the McNamaras and their apologists who murder and lie and then smugly smirk behind the liberal values they betray...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

...first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster's in the 1962 movie Birdman of Alcatraz. The studios then typecast him in a long series of heavy roles, notably the swinish pervert in The Dirty Dozen (1967). When Hollywood sagged as a film center in the '60s, Savalas moved his wife Lynn and their three daughters to Europe, where he worked unenthusiastically as a villain in Italian potboilers. "One day," he says yearningly, "they will realize I can do a romantic story. Forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Polish Sherlock | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...dancing and an awful lot of BurtBacharachmusic. And I am left, finally, with a question for Helen Gurley Brown. Is it really in the style of a Cosmo girl to end an affair with: "When you walked through the door with that distinguished hat, I knew you were a pervert!!"? Maybe Ann Landers was right...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Promising Promises Unfulfilled | 11/3/1973 | See Source »

...head of the whole nasty slave racket is a Caucasian pervert named Amafi (Frank Finlay), whose line of chatter runs to things like "Luck can run out even for you, my black brother." It is difficult to imagine how he rose to such a position of prominence, but his henchmen seem impressed. They chase Shaft all over Ethiopia, from desert to village and even across the water to Paris. But he eventually dispatches them all, even taking time out to discuss a clitoridectomy with Aleme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pilgrimage | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

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