Word: errol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Errol T. Louis, in his recent editorial piece "The Darker Side," has certainly moderated his anti-American vituperation from the levels reached in some of the articles of his which appeared last year in What Is To Be Done? This time, in an admirable display of self-restraint, he limits himself to the charge that Blacks in this country and elsewhere are "as a group, getting beat in the head by various American institutions, chief among them the United States government." Louis is, of course, being figurative; we Blacks have not been in serious danger of random head-beating...
...seems that Errol Louis cannot begin to write about systematic oppression under the "democratic" capitalism in the West without being labelled an apologist for authoritarian "socialism" in the East. But if Louis has argued for any world-view in his brillaint End-papers, it is that the U.S. and the USSR form an axis of repression. As long as we think that our political choices are limited to Calvin Coolidge or Josef Stalin, we will be paralyzed with fear and trembling...
...once I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with one of the statements made by Errol T. Louis in his "Endpaper" column. Last week he stated that most Harvard students, like most Americans, have been raised on a number of dangerous illusions about the world. However, I feel that the greatest and most dangerous illusion many Americans readily accept is that the United States and the Soviet Union are both motivated by morally equivalent aims in pursuing the arms race and that if only we would take the first step to disarm or institute a nuclear freeze...
...partners in Western Europe. If this is the case, may I suggest to Mr. Louis that he travel first to West Germany, and then to East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. to discover the true implication of the term "satellite country." In the spirit of Orwell's 1984 and Errol T. Louis' "Endpaper," words have a way of losing their distinction so as to make lucid thinking impossible...
...letter to the editors (12/10/83), Robert A. Watts praises Errol T. Louis for his editorials of December 2 and 3 which condemn Israel for its relations with South Africa. He calls the articles "remarkable." I, too, would call Louis' articles "remarkable." They stand out as examples of how half-truth, distortion and general misinformation can be used to convince people that Israeli policies (in this case regarding South Africa) are immoral and that Israel should not be supported...