Word: defendents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With these ends in mind, he dismisses the idea that anyone who tries to defend the present distribution of political-economic power in America can support Alinsky's ends in any other than a personal fantasy world. And with frequent glances over his shoulder at history, he dismisses the idea that any ideology holds the key to successful revolution, and the idea that any successful revolution can possibly hold the key to paradise. At the heart of Alinsky's theory of political and social change is his utter rejection of belief in apocalypse. He no more believes that radical action...
...that matter, even some of the venerable pachyderms Nixon herded to Washington to defend his foreign policy quickly wearied of the hard sell. John J. McCloy, who was once considered unofficial president of the Eastern Establishment, grew so restless during a long lecture by Nixon that he started flipping his pencil into the air. Finally, by one participant's account, he blurted out to Dean Acheson: "Why, this man is telling us things that we all knew when he was still in those dreadful California suits." When Nixon called for a break to have a group picture taken, Acheson...
...regimes which Nixon and Kissinger seek to defend in Southeast Asia are among the most cruel and totalitarian in the world. Their leaders imprison their political enemies, commit indiscriminate murder, and impose a rule of terror and dictatorship on their native populations. And it is not out of some perverted sense of fairness or democracy that these regimes are being defended. It is out of a harsh, brutal calculation of what an imperialist, power like the United States must do to maintain itself in the world...
...flooded with hate-mail. Nothing daunted, however, the persistent Bernsteins last week gave another political party in their Park Avenue pad. This time, it was Catholic Chic: 125 guests (including Producer-Director Harold Prince, Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Cartoonist-Playwright Jules Feiffer) raised some $35,000 to help defend Father Philip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, and the other six antiwarriors accused of plotting to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger and blow up some of the federal heating system. For some reason, nobody from the press was invited...
...American wage spiral and spurring research and development (instead of stifling it in some areas). For financial as well as other reasons, the U.S. needs to trim its military and political commitments around the world. But any such cutback will oblige Europe and Japan to do more to defend themselves and aid the underdeveloped world...