Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What worries swimming coach Bill Brooks is not the University of Connecticut team Harvard faces tonight, but the possibility of a snow storm.
Reading the NYA newspaper Attack!. one finds in the group's mentality an awesome witch hunt; the devil is red and black, and recognizably utopian. The witches are trose who teach that "paradise is a place where hominoids with full bellies live in a perpetual rut," devoid of "honor, loyalty...
Behind conquest-the proof of superiority and inferiority-is the idea of inherent inequality. "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free," is the motto of Attack! A pin worn by NYA members bears the symbol of mathematical inequality, an equals sign with a slash mark across it...
"Our civilization," writes the editor of Attack!, "is founded and rests on violence. Every civilization is directly descended from a conquest; and if it were not for the constant promise of retaliatory violence from the law, me would live every moment at the utter mercy of criminals and thugs."
NYA is symptomatic of a reactionary element in America, young and old. How much it will be fed by public reaction to radical leftist violence remains to be seen, but the potential is there and it is dangerous.