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...against the Center is at bottom an attack on social science research and on academic freedom itself. The research at the Center is only a microcosm of social science research in American universities, as the full list of CFIA publications make apparent. In practical terms the Center is an adjunct of the various departments of Government, Economics, Social Relations and related disciplines. It facilitates comparative studies and exchanges of data, ideas and criticism across disciplines and between various approaches in the international field...
...target chosen and the consciousness with respect to it that exists in various sections of society. There are times when terrorism is a substitute-and a necessarily inadequate one-for mass action, and times when it encourages mass action. There are times when terrorism is a politically valuable adjunct to a mass radical movement, though it can never be the substance of such a movement...
...corruption, vice and violence, few cities could match 19th century San Francisco. Opium dens, brothels, gambling parlors, Shanghai saloons and gangs flourished by dint of maximum bribes to police and minimum legal scrutiny. Civic morality occasionally counterattacked the Barbary Coast and its adjunct, Chinatown; in 1875 authorities formed an elite corps of policemen to check Chinatown's bloody tong wars...
...baby animal zoo usurped one corner of the grounds; 280 monkeys, brought all the way from Southeast Asia, were set loose and swinging in the 15 acres of beech, oak and hickory trees. Parking facilities were established, as well as a restaurant, picnic area, gas station and that necessary adjunct to the tourist trade, a photo and souvenir shop...
...such men as Andreski, Frank and Bouthoul present the case for war? Not because they believe in war-certainly none of them do-but because they entertain the view that war is an inevitable adjunct, and in many ways the architect, of the civilization that man has built. When asked if he really believes that war is beneficial, Andreski replies: "That depends on whether you think technological civilization is beneficial. Personally, I like it, but I'm not convinced it is a viable creation. It may destroy itself." Destruction was the first and still remains the cardinal function...