Word: amerika
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...excuse. It rests, to start with, on an inflammatory imprecision, the polemics of overkill. Hitler's holocaust remains the century's central metaphor of evil. Throughout the '60s, by a process of escalating outrage, the device debased what was left of political dialogue. Radicals painted "Amerika" on campus walls. Police were "fascist pigs." Women's Lib's Gloria Steinem even took up the cry recently, claiming that a female reading Playboy must experience the same revulsion that a Jew would feel encountering a Nazi manual. Meantime, ideologues on the other side professed to see Brownshirts...
...bother to open a letter addressed to him from Chicago until 5. Printed neatly by hand, it warned that bombs had been planted in safe-deposit boxes in nine banks in New York, Chicago and San Francisco by a radical political group calling itself "Movement in Amerika."* The letter went on to list the names of the banks as well as the numbers of the boxes; enclosed was a key to one of the boxes...
...boxes had all been rented by a person or persons using the name of Christopher Charles Mohr. Unfortunately, Mohr may strike again. The radicals' letter declared that the bomb scare was only a warmup. Movement in Amerika is considering kidnaping property-a luxury hotel, a corporate office building, a superhighway-in exchange for the release of "political prisoners." The letter concluded: "Who will want to vacation in that hotel, meet in that board room or drive on that superhighway for the next few months?" The radicals also warned that a seven-month time bomb with a more powerful explosive...
...center is the experience of a growing women's consciousness. To begin with, our women's consciousness comes from our experience of life in Amerika, which has been a continual process of self-destruction through submission to repression and oppression. We have been alienated from our bodies and afraid of our minds. From the beginning, with our dolls and the frilly dresses we were told to keep clean, we have learned-they have told us-that it's a man's world and we had better learn to keep in our places (in the home, in bed). And they kept...
...great conflicts of America into that one courtroom and live them out day-by-day as the trial unfolded. The Harvard Law School view was that the American judicial process was on trial. Washington columnists thought they were testing the 1968 anti-riot law. Abbie Hoffman said Amerika was on trial. The defense attorneys said the Movement was. Others claimed it was youth versus age or sex versus sterility. Or even Mayor Daley's version of the convention riots versus the media's. Or whatever you like really. Political beliefs were on trial, and attitudes, but also eight...