Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Precisely because the debate had been thorough and quite open, and because three organizations composed exclusively or largely of student representatives had come out with similar recommendations that did not endorse the SDS position, the sit-in could only be interpreted as an attempt to impose by pressure what was not obtainable by free and rational discussion. This is a form of moral absolutism that amounts to intolerable political tryanny. Majority rule has its flaws, and I have heard ad nauseam the argument that moral issues cannot be settled by majority decisions. But what was at stake was public policy...
...political existence. Nixon first named his closest friends and then filled up the remaining slots with men who would probably not have been national figures in any other Republican Administration. Politicians who had once tried to establish a base beyond their own constituencies were selected only if their attempt failed completely--Governor George Romney, who will be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, dropped out of the Presidential race against Nixon before the first primary, and Governor John Volpe, who will head the Department of Transportation, was trounced in his favorite-son bid for the Massachusetts primary by a last...
...facto propaganda and allegory, whatever the author's disposition toward his subject matter may be. In consequence, aesthetic considerations must take second place to the social and political ones in criticizing such a book. With artistic considerations aside, Mr. Styron's novel is little more than an attempt to demean Nat Turner and the black people. The book fails to make good its claim to historical veracity and perpetuates a large number of anti-black myths and assumptions...
This is a very basic insult. The skeleton of the true Turner, a black man, can be clearly discerned in the original confessions. That Styron made no attempt to include a portion of Turner's own viewpoint in the novel's hero is nothing less than a denial of Turner's basic worth and separate personality. It is to say that he is not fit to appear, even marginally, in the novel that bears his name...
...mentioned above, Nat Turner is a figure of great symbolic significance in the present struggle for black freedom. To write about him and his revolt now, in present-day America, is to write propaganda and allegory. It is to make a de facto attempt to influence the thinking of contempory blacks and whites on a vital segment of black history and thus influence the final outcome of the present struggle...