Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baldwin has understanding but little sympathy for the Black Muslim movement (TIME, Aug. 10, 1959) and its mystical leaders, who contend that "Allah" will wreak vengeance on the "white devil." Visiting the Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad in Chicago, Baldwin found himself wanting to defend his white friends. "I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when they are trying to prove that Negroes are not subhuman." When he left, he felt that he and Elijah "would always be strangers, and possibly, one day, enemies." The Muslim, fantasy of achieving power disturbed Baldwin...
...even know what a letter of the alphabet was. Now I can defend myself." So said Felicinda de Lozada, a 36-year-old Caracas housewife for whom a proud new world was opening up last week. Illiterate a year ago, Felicinda enrolled in one of the adult night schools that Venezuela's government has organized in her slum barrio. She now looks forward to a complete primary-school education, and then intends to get a job to help support her family...
...Committee is a frank communist sympathizer, and because of the very nature of the junket, most of those who will accompany him will probably be communist sympathizers too. It is a shame that the State Department has made it necessary that those who care deeply about freedom will have defend it in the persons of so undeserving a bunch...
Vellucci demanded that Rudolph appear before the City Council on Jan. 7 to defend his proposed truck routes through Cambridge. He challenged Rudolph's plans to funnel heavy trucks through "the peaceful, thickly populated residential areas" of the city and claimed that East Cambridge particularly would be inundated by a flood of heavy vehicles...
This year all those performers are gone, but the team, which opens its season tomorrow night at 7 against M.I.T., may still have a good chance to successively defend its coveted Hops title...