Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Terror in the Streets...
...quoted several remarks of mine concerning "the new terror" in the U.S. You did not, however, quote my diagnosis of the phenomenon: that it is the result of the political system's inability to reform itself from within. I would like your readers to know that, in my view, this violence will continue until America makes the choice between a radical social transformation and neofascist repression. Terrorism is symptomatic of anarchic social conditions created by the inability of the present corporate state to solve the people's problems. Until the corporate state becomes a people's state...
Actually, Restif wrote no diary during the terror. My Revolution is an exasperating dodge, deceptively mislabeled by the publishers. It was written entirely in 1969 by Alex Karmel, a novelist and an ex-Fulbright student in Paris. The book is exceptionable because the reader is led to think that Karmel's handmade wormholes are real. It is exasperating because as a historical novel it must be counted brilliant...
...governments withhold recognition from a country because it endangers the peace or harasses its neighbors. Many African nations refuse to recognize South Africa because it denies equal rights to blacks and mixed-blood "coloreds." At the same time, many of them do not protest Peking's use of terror against its citizens. The U.S., which recognizes South Africa but not Peking, is often accused of maintaining precisely the opposite double standard. Because of such moral v. practical dilemmas, most nations try to avoid using recognition as a form of judgment...
...went to England, let his peroxided hair grow brown and long. He took speech lessons, and, after a strong performance in a BBC drama, received an offer to play Hamlet with the excellent Birmingham Repertory Theater. Recalls Chamberlain: "I felt pride, amazement, disbelief, terror." He was the first American to dare Hamlet in Britain since John Barrymore, and, premiere night, a full cry of London critics rode to Birmingham for the kill -and for a shock. Wrote the Times critic the next morning: "Anyone who comes to this production prepared to scoff at the sight of a popular American television...