Word: righting
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...Hitler, but I was a good Hitler," Fagin says with a characteristic smile at the Brookline headquarters of the reincarnated press, an hour from Harvard. "I came back to New York in 1967 to live permanently, and right away was involved in a community of writers. My way of being involved was to cleave them to me and control them all by starting a little magazine. It became a kind of benign power, and at the same time a friendly way to involve myself. That was my original motivation...
Imagine stacks of paper on a basement table; Ashbery's sorting to your left, and Ginsberg's stapling to your right. "Everyone was loose and free and easy," Fagin says of the pseudo-utopia he and his writer friends created. "I know it seems idyllic, but maybe it was." Like the School of Paris in painting, the New York School of Poets-closely linked to emerging abstract expressionist artists-was simply a group of writers defined by their common vocation and narrow geographical living space...
...race behind both suggestions. "Back to Africa" fails to recognize that Africans in Africa and the United States belong to distinct peoples each with their own history, culture and institutions. There is no reason to think that African-Americans belong or fit in better in Africa than they do right here in America. Similarly, "back to Arabia" misses the fact that, like the Africans, the 200 million Arabs in the Middle East belong to distinct nations, each with their own history, culture and institutions...
...thinking about the people involved, namely that they are all the same--concessions to some are concessions to the others. But any real measure of Israeli concessions to the Palestinians should focus on the central claims of the Palestinians--sovereignty over the Occupied Territories including East Jerusalem, the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees, and the removal of Israeli settlements from the West Bank--not on some list of demands supposedly made by the Arab race...
Imagine that there were riots in Los Angeles right now just like the ones that we saw after the Rodney King verdict. Suppose that in the face of what people saw as a travesty of justice, they took to the streets and smashed stores and offices and attacked the police (which they did in L.A.). Now imagine that in response, the United States called in the army to restore order, firing on civilians with live ammunition, and using Apache helicopters and anti-tank missiles to destroy neighborhoods. Would anyone think this was reasonable? Would anyone blame the rioters...