Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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> Even if you are middle-class white, try to sound like the member of an oppressed racial minority: "Nobody in the world is safe from the 'ugly Americans' who come to take their land, their resources, and their cultural identities" (Tom Hayden). This is what is known as...
To bone up properly on New Leftese, one must go to the sources, to an anthology doubling as a style manual like The New Left Reader: all dialectics illustrated from late-model Castro to early Rudd (Mark I). And for training the ear, there is a living-vernacular record: Rebellion...
> Keep in mind that the primary purpose of words is not to express meaning but to pump adrenalin. Use active, blood-tingling verbs like "smash" or "liberate." If anybody disagrees with you, call him imperialist, authoritarian or at least manipulator for the power elite.
> Drop sacred names, but be sure which names to drop. Remember the basic rule: the safest saint is a dead saint -Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Frantz Fanon. Be particularly careful about bringing up Herbert Marcuse. His importance, Carl Oglesby warns, may have been "badly overstated." "He is not the kind...
> Put down the Old Left, or even the earlier New Left-S.N.C.C., the budding days of the S.D.S. Could one really have hoped that anything good would come from the Kennedys, for instance, or from the march on Selma, Alabama?