Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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AMID all the noisy rhetoric of the retreat from integration in recent weeks, surprisingly few blacks have spoken out in sorrow or anger. Black leaders, normally quick off the mark to meet any new challenge to civil rights, have largely kept quiet. Their silence in part reflects the general confusion and uncertainty over the turnabout. More important, it shows that for increasing numbers of black leaders and thoughtful black citizens, integration is no longer the magic formula it was in the heady, exultant days following the 1954 Brown decision. There is a new sense among blacks of the limits...
Innis has been talking with white segregationist Southern Governors about setting up separate black-run school systems. "Integration is dead," Innis claims. "Its epitaph has been in the coming for a hell of a long time. Integration came to be viewed by the civil rights aristocracy not as a means to an end, but as an end in itself...
...computer at Fort Holabird, Md., on between 2,000 and 5,000 individuals and numerous political organizations. The records are not even limited to such avowedly revolutionary groups as the Black Panthers or the Weathermen. Also among them are respected organizations like the N.A.A.C.P. and the American Civil Liberties Union. The Army has also circulated to base commanders a six-volume "blacklist" of dissidents and their organizations...
Sketches to illustrate news have been part of U.S. journalism at least since the Civil War, when small armies of artists invaded the battlefields on behalf of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly. The development of the camera did not end the practice, one thing, artists still can go some places that photographers cannot-notably, inside most courtrooms...
INDUSTRIALIZATION. "If we look at the spread of industrial civilization throughout the world, we find that its chief cause was the overwhelming military superiority of the industrialized over unindustrialized states." CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Except for the hunt, intertribal warfare was mankind's first significantly large collective action. In this respect, Andreski says, the organization required to set up armies served as a useful model for government. Andreski cites as one example the development of the infantry phalanx by the ancient Greeks. Individual force was pooled into collective force-a lesson writ large in the philosophy of mass democracy. DEMOCRACY...