Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Renault Robinson's case is an extreme example of the difficulties that confront black cops around the U.S. They often face the hostility of their white comrades-in-arms and the enmity of black militants, who consider them Uncle Toms, plus the indifference of other blacks who regard only white cops as "reel police." Says Octave Richard, a black patrolman on Chicago's South Side: "We're in the middle...
Governor Ronald Reagan and Senator George Murphy to address a crowd of 3,300 in the San Jose municipal auditorium, where he replayed his standard speech of the campaign. Then Nixon emerged into the darkness to confront several thousand hostile demonstrators. He clambered onto the hood of his limousine. Face hard and chin jutting out, he stood in the glare of television lights; he spread his arms and waggled his fingers in his "V" salute. "That's what they hate to see," he remarked...
...dominated movement. They were tired of doing the shitwork and subordinating themselves to the avaricious egos of male movement heavies: By expressing the sexism of male radicals and their egoistic drives for leadership, the women's movement eroded the moral purity of the new revolutionary consciousness. Rather than immediately confront these realities, male radicals were eager to accept a separatism drive on the part of women...
...presentation, Provocations, Eames criticized the development of art in America. American civilization has become institutionalized, he said, the arts "have built themselves up a niche of specialty." When people confront an experience of life, they are apt to abandon their own reactions and translate their experience into terms dictated by established art, he added...
...radical) has been disappointing so far. Isolationist liberals reject ideology but lack the courage of their convictions, shirking the point-blank predicaments of modern statecraft. They must first specify the genuine obligation, if any, of the U. S. to Europe, Japan and the Middle East. They must also confront in some co-herent way the problem of imperialism, Communist or anti-Communist. Anti-imperialist convictions might endanger the Soviet-American detente-a detente which most liberals now exploit as a primary tactic against excessive military spending. The new isolationists ignored the invasion of Czechoslovakia or simply begged the issue...