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...National Council for Civic Responsibility yesterday asked citizens to "help put the spotlight on America's extremist fringe." Five Harvard Faculty members joined in signing the plea, published as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times...
...Most of the jests in the book are not too funny. For instance, a "Right-Wing Palmistry Chart" contains an "itchy trigger finger" and a "party line." Instructions for "the extremist dance" include "take one step to the Right" and "swing over to the Left." Yok. A list of "known extremist groups" intersperses organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Muslims with thigh-slappers like the Mickey Mouse Club and Peter, Paul and Mary...
...refutation is that some of the jests are funny (for example, an Extremist Literacy Test with questions like "Define the following words: Defoliation: 1. Mowing the lawn. 2. Taking a girl's virginity. 3. Blowing the bejeezus out of North Viet Nam," but not many. Only about 50 cents' worth...
EXTREMISM. "I seek the support of no extremist-of the left or the right. We repudiate character assassins, vigilantes, Communists and any group such as the Ku Klux Klan that seeks to impose its views through terror or threat or violence...
...said, mean he condoned extremist groups that worked toward "the overthrow of the Government" and, in fact, "did not apply to political philosophy at all." Insisted Goldwater: "It's the plainest English I ever used. I just think some people can't read the English language, and I feel sorry for them when they can't see the fences around that sentence...