Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...workshop on G.I. rights asked for official SMC opposition to "racism in the service, the suspension of civil rights in the service, and the prosecution of anti-war G.I.'s." The G.I. representative also urged universities to open their campuses to local G.I.'s, and urged students to make the G.I. "feel part of the movement." He said there is a "great and largely untapped potential" for activism in the armed services...
...Bernstein and his cronies are sincere in their quixotic defense of civil liberties, I suggest they research the Panthers' credo and re-evaluate their inane justifications. The translation of "civil" liberties by the Black Panthers comes out "kill the pigs"-pure and simple...
Nigeria's civil war is over, but tribal conflicts continue to plague other African countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia and the Sudan. In Chad, Nigeria's neighbor to the east, an insurrection begun by fierce, nomadic Moslem herdsmen has intensified ancient animosities. It has also led to the reappearance of an old symbol of Africa's colonial past: the white kepis of the French Foreign Legion...
...sign of intellectual naivete to argue that the political acts of a pederast will automatically be evil and the political acts of a heterosexual will automatically be good? With similar unsophistication, he argues that only whites hurt blacks. Presumably, after almost 21 years of the Nigerian civil war, even his eyes should be a little wider open than that. One insufferable assumption of the play is that anything the U.S. does in the world is unvaryingly venal. Now to err is human, and since Americans are human, they err. But to imply that all their motives in world affairs...
...cohere-the demands for reparations, the open insults to Martin Luther King, the bifurcation of white radicals and black separatists, the totalitarian language. As the conference deteriorated into violent poses and elliptical rhetoric, Adler crystallizes the radical tragedy: "A movement born out of a corruption of the vocabulary of civil rights-pre-empting the terms that belonged to a truly oppressed minority and applying them to the situation of some bored children committed to choosing what intellectual morsels they liked from the buffet of life -now luxuriated in the cool political vocabulary, while the urban civil rights movement, having nearly...