Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance which gave Harvard a chance to cop the meet came in the next to last race--the 200-yard breaststroke. E.G. Nadeau flew off the last turn and came churning down the lane to wrest second place from a tiring Bruin...
...this sense that the Moynihan Report is a cop-out; not for the white conscience so much as for official policy-makers faced with the impossibility of reconstituting power relations via government policy. Moynihan says that "unless we can change the character of the Negro family all our efforts will come to naught." But to change the character of the Negro family via government policy is impossible not only because of psychological reality but because of political reality...
...CORE, William Ryan (not the Manhattan congressman) and published in the Nation. Ryan, a psychologist, was a consultant to the Massachusetts Committee on Children and Youth, whose head is a former director of the Children's Bureau. He charged the report with providing grounds for a massive white "cop out" by means of "a new form of subtle racism that might be termed 'Savage Discovery,' and seduces the reader into believing that it is not racism and discrimination but the weaknesses and defects of the Negro himself that account for the present status of inequality...." One recalls the character...
...turning on the President and all his works. Thus, Ramparts published an editorial written by Marcus Raskin, evincing great concern that I seemed to think more Negroes should be in the armed forces (I do); and indicting me further as a lackey of the "social welfare monopolicy--with its cop and spying attributes" that now proposed to force decent proletarian Negroes to live like the white bourgeoisie and to "torture" them with birth control. I had become a most suspect person indeed in the ranks of SNCC and CORE, and the Presidential initiative suffered accordingly...
Reality intrudes into their make-believe celluloid world when they seek to exchange their hostage for a bag full of francs. A policeman tries to arrest them for double parking and with one flic, the flick, for them, is over. The boys lose their cool, shoot the cop, and spray the surrounding crowd with a submachine gun; three innocent bystanders die. The thieves flee, and like kids miming a game of cops and robbers they shoot it out on the rocks in an abandoned quarry. But playtime is over; the bullets are for real...