Word: elementals
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Before deciding whether to support Black guerrillas, he examined passive resistance to determine its motive forces and utility in Rhodesia. And in The Riddle of Violence, he presents his conclusions: Rhodesia lacked the elements to make a non-violent struggle feasible. He points out what single-minded moralists overlook: nonviolence, by itself, can be a total failure. For in Nazi Germany, the Jews died, regardless of passiveor active resistance. Use of this example led Kaunda to conclude that one element necessary for a successful non-violent struggle: some morality in the ruling establishment. If the oppressors will kill anyone...
...Bevan, then age 24, as the Labor Party's National Youth Officer back in 1976, the hue and cry was immediate. London's Daily Mirror was quick to call him "Red Andy" and "a dangerous representative of Trotskyist infiltration." The Times editorialized that Bevan was a "subversive element" and likened his appointment to "soldiers under siege being asked suddenly to accept the command of one of the enemy." An array of Labor stalwarts, including Michael Foot and then Prime Minister James Callaghan, objected to Bevan's selection...
These influences helped to shape my view of homosexuality. Like the rest of society, I viewed them as unnatural and disgusting. I saw homosexuality as corruption of "real" sexuality, an unfortunate element to be restricted or supressed where possible. And despite the standard jokes, deep down homosexuality made me very uncomfortable...
...place where you learn to take drugs and stab people." Stab people? Take drugs? How about not locking your cars, the Eastern householder suddenly wonders. "Oh, we still do that," says Billie Powers, "but it's asking for trouble. We're getting the same element here as everywhere else...
These organizations have always been strapped for funds, and minorities have a tiny pool of wealthy alumni to draw on for support, given the exclusion of Third World students for the first 330 years of Harvard's existence. Furthermore, the report does not deal directly with a key element of students' initial proposal for a Third World center: minority admissions. If Third World students are conspicuously "separatist," as some "perceive," it is only because Harvard admits a consciusly small number of minorities. The Gomes report skirts the issue of minority admissions, so vital to increasing cooperation, understanding and consciousness...