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...rallying round some member of Demirel's dominant Justice Party who would be more acceptable to the army. Either out of fear of an outright military takeover or, more likely, out of tacit agreement with the generals' move, most Turks accepted the change with equanimity. Even the extremist student group Dev-genc (an acronym for "revolutionary youth movement") joined in a declaration of support for any reforms that the military might have in mind...
...point in Agnew's own speech-just as the Vice President denounced media coverage of "Any extremist who dignifies our adversaries and demeans our traditions" and "unloads into millions of American living rooms his deprecations against society and disrespect for civilized law," -shaggy-haired c. Wendell Smith, 28, a reporter for the Phoenix, rose to glare at the Vice President from the center aisle...
Molière was a foe of zealotry, and an apostle of moderation. He regarded the extremist as society's sickest man. Each of his better plays is a kind of psychosocial profile of a man with a raging obsession, a feverishly disordered imagination. He may be a hypocrite, a miser, a misanthrope. In Molière's view, such a man is as mad as a man who claims to be Napoleon; the only cure is a cascade of laughter and the bracing tonic of common sense...
...final reaction. The Harvard University Faculty is, I think, indirectly responsible for the intellectually vulgar attacks that are emanating from some extremist persons associated with the Department of Afro-American Studies. I was a member, the only black, of the original Faculty committee-the so-called Rosovsky Committee-which reported to the Harvard Faculty in February 1969 a plan for organizing a degree-granting curriculum in Afro-American Studies. Our report, a section of which I drafted, followed in every detail the scholarly and intellectual precepts that must be followed in the establishment and execution of academic affairs in this...
...Faculty adopted our report, as it should have. But, alas, when confronted with violent threats from demented persons among the extremist wing of the Harvard African and Afro-American Students Association during the Student Strike of April 1969, the Faculty reversed itself. It adopted instead alternative proposals. These proposals, emanating largely from militant black students, were utterly bizarre, from an intellectual and scholarly standpoint. Intellectual and scholarly precepts were thrown to the wind: Negro students were given an authoritative voice in the committees empowered to set up the Afro-American Studies curriculum and in the governance of the department that...