Word: anarchists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While President Nixon was spreading the gospel of disengagement in Southeast Asia, Secretary of State William Rogers was deep in talks with the Japanese. Those discussions turned out to be not only diplomatically difficult but physically dangerous. A Japanese anarchist, Shigeji Hamaoka, 21, went at Rogers with a dull paint scraper and missed. Hamaoka's apparent motive: to protest the supposed injustice that Rogers was in Tokyo to discuss-continued U.S. occupation of Okinawa. The island was captured in 1945, and has since become the largest U.S. military base off the Asian mainland...
...student drive brought an alarmed response from business associations and Chambers of Commerce. They held briefings and sent out thousands of letters informing executives about the program and recommending screening procedures to keep activists off payrolls. J. Edgar Hoover warned that union members would face "fanatic, anarchist revolutionaries" who have left behind them "a bitter wake of arson, vandalism, bombings and destruction across the nation" and who believe that "unions should be destroyed, along with the Government, the military, private industry and law enforcement." New York's Commerce and Industry Association held a meeting, closed to outsiders, at which...
THERE are times when the one-word quotations featured in a movie's advertising are, to one's surprise, accurate. Such is the case for Alexander. It is "Happy!", "Funny!", "Impudent!", "Wisel", "Anarchist!", "Subversive!" and more. It is an amusing conception, has some excellent acting, superb photography, and beautiful French countryside, and is, finally, an evening well spent...
...anarchist thrust," as you put it, "leads nowhere," so does Marx's thrust, for his predicted future society, classless and stateless, without law and economic scarcity, free from disharmony and all evil, is no goal but a pipedream...
...anarchist thrust-though it can be destructively powerful-leads nowhere. Some rebels sensing this, will look around for a more constructive vision. When they look, there will be the bearded prophet with his peculiar mix of scientism and moral passion, his peculiar way of linking yesterday-today-tomorrow, his peculiar kind of oversimplification and exaggeration, his peculiar kind of hope...