Word: haven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...religious tradition to eliminate inequities that cause interracial tension. Last year, for example, at the suggestion of some Boston Jews, a group of Negro tenement dwellers presented their grievances against their Jewish landlord to a beth din, or religious court. "This was a bunch of very old guys who haven't read James Baldwin or Rap Brown," says Boston's Leonard Fein, "and they wouldn't know a social-action council if they fell over it. But they know the Talmud and the Bible." Using these texts, the judges improvised a solution that satisfied both sides. The landlord agreed...
...lower to a higher form of life had taken some two billion years. (Biologist H. J. Muller has graphically illustrated how long it took by imagining the span of time since life first appeared on earth as a trip along a tape running 90 miles from beyond New Haven to the center of a desk on Wall Street. Man appears 7 ½ feet from the center.) Darwin's theory did not suggest that man as a biological animal had improved in the 5,000 years of more or less civilized history. There was no real proof either that evolution...
...Sato kept a discreet and diplomatic silence. The Premier was more talkative at his year-end bash for the press. "Mr. Prime Minister," asked one reporter, "did you beat your wife?" Certainly, Sato answered. Do you still beat her? "No, I don't," he replied. "Times have changed, haven't they?" Or have they? When Sato asked: "Do you fellows beat your wives?" fully half the newsmen answered...
...such judgments, and if we ever reach such a juncture I would fully expect to be repressed by the majority I was fighting against. Nevertheless, granting the existence of evil in the world (though its exact location may be a subject of dispute) and granting that most of us haven't learned the lesson "resist not evil," I do not see how such judgments, such actions, and such consequences can be avoided. Sitting quietly in a room has itself become a political act of almost unimaginable import...
...simple fact is that if most of us have begun with our own despair at American society and its automated plastic culture, we have been led to seek out sources of political power in this country which might be organized into a struggle against that society. Obviously we haven't given very far, as yet. But to view our concern for the interests of workers, or black people, or students, or the third world, as merely our attempt to project our personal failure to "make it" on to those other groups, is to fail totally to understand the motivations...