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Unquestionably, decent Americans have reason to complain about the persistence of a double standard of justice for blacks and whites, rich and poor, which reflects the wider pattern of discrimination throughout the nation. But that does not legitimize a rhetoric that equates violence with politics, rape with revolution. The gradual, painful struggle of the U.S. to make equality a fact instead of a broken promise lacks the seductive appeal of revolutionary apocalypse. But for the majority of Americans, regardless of race, it nonetheless remains the only way to conquer hypocrisy. It may also be the only way to prevent...
Perhaps because what they flee from is even worse. Each has his own horror story of rape, murder or other atrocity committed by the Pakistani army in its effort to crush the Bengali independence movement. One couple tells how soldiers took their two grown sons outside the house, bayoneted them in the stomach and refused to allow anyone to go near the bleeding boys, who died hours later. Another woman says that when the soldiers came to her door, she hid her children in her bed; but seeing them beneath the blanket, the soldiers opened fire, killing two and wounding...
...convention require L.C.M.S. members to accept not only traditional Lutheran Confessions of Faith but also all statements on biblical doctrines passed by Synod conventions. The "absolutism" of the presidential wing, wrote the angriest of the opposition newspapers circulating on the convention floor, resembled nothing so much as "gang rape...
Playwrights in Residence The Virginia State Penitentiary squats smack in the middle of Richmond, a graying wad of concrete plopped down in a dreary commercial neighborhood of decaying buildings. It is a maximum-security prison that houses 1,200 inmates whose offenses run from rape and robbery right up to multiple murders. Improbably, it also houses one of the country's fastest-growing and most enthusiastic drama schools...
...goes the affair between man and the 3,000 to 4,000 languages he has invented? As a lover, as well as a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Steiner knows rape when he sees it, and he sees it. The Nazis abused German almost to death, he argued in Language and Silence. In Extraterritorial, he warns that a more current threat, "the drift and boredom of semiliteracy" -man's marriage of convenience to his words, threatens to crush the life out of all civilized languages...