Word: cleavers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surgeon Thomas LaFarge also brought moments of wit to The Lampoon with his slogan "Forget Vietnam! See The Meat-Cleaver Man!" and his description and catalogue of mutilations that can spare American youth "the indignities of conscription." Similarly revivifying was the poem inspired by Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" which Dr. La Farge dedicated to the CRIMSON...
Jarring Eloquence. Black Power spokesmen shrilled murder, claiming Hutton's hands were raised; seven other Panthers were taken prisoner without further shooting. One, wounded in the foot, was Author Eldridge Cleaver, 32, whose jarring eloquence bares the pent-up black rage that inspires the Panthers' snarling intransigence. "We shall have our manhood," warns Cleaver, the party's information minister, in his recently published book Soul on Ice (TIME, April 5). "We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain...
...them. Armed Panthers invaded California's state assembly last spring to protest a tough new gun law; Panther Defense Minister Huey P. Newton, 26, is in jail awaiting trial for killing an Oakland policeman; Chairman Bobby Seale, 31, was convicted last week of illegal possession of weapons, and Cleaver, who has spent 12 of his adult years in prison for narcotics and assault convictions, was being held under guard in a hospital as a parole violator...
Large Hatred. It is Cleaver's thesis-as it is James Baldwin's, among others-that the root cause of racial prejudice in America is sexual. He argues that as a result of the Negro's years of servility, the black male has been systematically robbed of his masculinity. Thus "castrated," the Negro also has been denied his development as a positive intellectual and social force. There is nothing really very new in Cleaver's analysis or black militant ideology. There is the familiar castigating of white liberals, the spewing forth of raw and undigested hate...
Indeed, for all his rage, Cleaver himself cannot help noting that the Negro male spirit is inexorably and literally shaking loose in the twist and the "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" of the Beatles-a musical style that was hijacked, he says, from Ray Charles. The Beatles, argues Cleaver, constitute a "soul by proxy"; they are the middlemen between the white mind and the Negro body. In oversimplified terms, this suggests that the more the white man learns to shake his body and loosen up, the more he will penetrate and come to understand the Negro psyche. An interesting thought-but will...