Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...politicians are either in the can or in exile. Another reason is that after Churchill excluded the Communists from the electoral process in accordance with a deal with Stalin, the Communists, who had spearheaded the resistance against the Germans, began taking desperate measures towards the end of the Greek civil war. They kidnapped children, slaughtered sheep, and murdered their opponents ruthlessly. The mountain villages were particularly hard hit, since the mountains were a bastion for the guerrillas. Many villagers who were affected by these harsh measures talk admiringly of the colonels, who are virulently anti-Communist. But even in these...
...Black Panthers' defense fund. Held in the Bernstein's 13-room, Park Avenue penthouse, the party-meeting featured a number of famous guests- Wolfe mentions most of them- and a collection of lesser known that Felicia had become acquainted with during her years of interest in various civil rights causes- they being the guests Wolfe bothers not to mention- as well as a number of Panthers, including Don Cox, Oakland Field Marshall, "and their women." Equally important, the party also featured assorted hors d'oeuvres, white servants (Latin American), and a confrontation between Lenny, Otto Preminger, Barbara Walters...
While Wolfe has revived the controversy, the Panthers had become demodee months before his tardy article was published. (The new line invokes support of Panther civil rights, but absolutely deplores the Panther stance on Israel.) In any case...
...Burkes are now living in Carterville, Ill., near Southern Illinois University, where John Burke has worked for the past year as a speech pathologist. Nevertheless, Judge Camarata ordered the parents to send David's sister back to the New Jersey adoption agency. Two weeks ago, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Burkes appealed directly to the New Jersey Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case. If they fail in their appeal, Eleanor Katherine may have to leave the only family she has ever known and await adoption by another couple whose religious convictions satisfy the State...
...then, self-contradiction is Cioran's game. He is a doomsayer who speaks in the voice of a French dandy wit. He is a lover of order who defines maddened civil war within the ego as the natural state of man. His first book was published in English as The Temptation to Exist (TIME...