Word: hentoff
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Through the sleepy stupor of a Sunday morning came the elevating lull of National Public Radio. Nat Hentoff, free-speech champion, was paying tribute to Ralph Ginzburg, who had died July 6 at the age of 76. That snapped me awake. Ginzburg had been declared a pornographer, had lost a Supreme Court obscenity decision and gone to jail - all for publishing a magazine I'd subscribed to when...
...possible that Dylan's social-musical conscience was a career movie too. He suggested as much to Nat Hentoff, who wrote a 1964 New Yorker profile on Dylan. About the "finger-pointing songs," he said, "Some of that was jumping into the scene to be heard and a lot of it was because I didn't see anybody else doing that sort of thing." But to those who took the songs at face value, they sounded like the voice of an angry God promising hard rain if the human race doesn't shape up quick...
...Hentoff mused, “Let us suppose these codes were in place on every campus in the country. Would racism go away? Racism would go underground, in the dark, where it’s most comfortable.... But racist attitudes would still fester. The only way to deal with racism is to bring it out into the open—not to pretend it has been scared away...
...Hentoff: Could you let me finish? Everyone in their own place can work for civil liberties. Students can protest and abolish speech codes. There’s so much anybody can do in the workplace. Let me end with a story. I was at this book fair one time and I was asked to give a talk to a large group of black and Latino students. And before the talk one of the teachers told me not to be alarmed if no one paid attention because they were only interested in clothes and music. Well, for an hour I told...
...Hentoff: