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...upholding the wholesale relocation of West Coast Japanese-Americans (actively supported in 1942 by California's then attorney general, Earl Warren) over Justice Frank Murphy's eloquent dissent that called the ruling "the ugly abyss of racism." By 1952, Black had swung so far around to a concept of limited Government that he wrote
Kenneth J. Gergen, who is investigating the self-concept and its modification, has been promoted to assistant professor of Social Psychology. An instructor at Harvard since 1963, he holds the B.A. (1957) from Yale and the Ph.D. (1963) from Duke...
...immune have the members of this affluent society become to the nuclear concept that in recent years, the danger of a holocaust has turned into a comfortable, abstract improbability. Your cover article [Sept. 25] may awaken the minds of those who have let partisanship rise above an awesome problem. The nuclear issue has turned into a maze of contradictions and evasions, thanks to those who have thrown it where it should have never been in the first place: in politics...
...pure heresy: contradicting Mao's infallible doctrine that "everything tends to divide into two," which is the very foundation for Peking's dialectical battle with Moscow. According to the "one-into-two theory," disputes are never resolved except by force, so that Moscow's cherished concept of peaceful coexistence is impossible. "The contradictions and struggle between Marxism-Leninism and modern revisionism can not be dealt with by mediation," warns Peking...
...hard to follow through completely, to reject acceptance by whites. As one student observed "to go along with Malcolm is to give up your dreams of getting into the mainstream of American life." But though few embrace black nationalism as a doctrine, many accept it as a useful concept, an intellectual focus for their feelings...