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...intent was to minimize friction during passage through an often abrasive society. To be nice, by some gentile measure, was more than a question of etiquette. It was a "sacred canon," Silberman says. Service to that canon became, in the words of Sociologist John Murray Cuddihy, "the ordeal of civility." Of all the problems faced by Jews since their earliest days in America--and Silberman covers most of them--the endless struggle over identity seems most fraught with anguish. Early arrivals in the new country found a society more tolerant than it was to become after the Civil War. Flagrant...
...civil libertarians will protest this control. They already are protesting. When Koch announced his roundup plan, he was vigorously opposed by the American Civil Liberties Union...
...relentless criticism of civil rights leaders by neoconservative blacks [NATION, Nov. 11] suggests that the likes of Benjamin Hooks and the Urban League have done nothing for the advancement of black Americans. If this is the case, then we should be able to subtract their contributions from American history without harming the social and economic development of blacks. Hypothetically, we could start by erasing Brown vs. Board of Education. Then we could resegregate higher education, sports and the workplace. We could also reintroduce law officers like Alabama's Bull Connor, who used dogs and fire hoses to break up civil...
Harvard Political Economist Glenn Loury should be commended for his attitude that blacks should pick themselves up by their bootstraps. The post-civil rights thinkers ought not to be labeled neoconservatives; they are "neorealists." It is about time we blacks realize that heaven helps those who help themselves. Prosper Emeka New York City...
...early '60s were heady days. Camelot, civil rights, new frontiers, war on poverty--and a social cure for mental illness. We would close the mental hospitals, empty the snake pits. Washington would create, ex nihilo, an entirely new system of care, planting mental health centers in every hamlet. New wonder drugs would control patients' symptoms. The community would welcome back its lost souls...