Word: hessler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your attack is not one of reasoned argument, but of slander. It relies on the specific connotation of words rather than on facts. Granted that the May 2nd Movement has significant differences with SDS; yet Mr. Hessler characterizes what is an alternative approach to the same issues as being that of an "enemy" on the left. For this assertion he offers no justification...
...implication, Mr. Hessler characterizes us as "cold hearted and hard-headed." The distinction between the "warm" "democratic" "people loving" "New" left and the cold calculating "Old" left is a cry that has been heard over and over again--most recently in an article appearing in an August issue of Mr. Buckley's National Review. Again Mr. Hessler adopts this a-priori assertion rather than an argument, that somehow providing an intellectual framework which we think clarifies action makes us "cold hearted...
...Hessler's statement that we view the Negro as being "an incidental victim of the same capitalist power which crushes the Viet Cong...
Finally Mr. Hessler writes that we "swallow whole" Leninist theory concerning imperialism. This is yellow journalism at its lowest. It carries the connotation of unthinking dupes accepting party dogma--it is not an argument--it is the vaguely masked cry of Commie, the magic word which so miraculously substitutes for thought in the U.S.A. today. It is certainly not the type of journalism that should characterize the CRIMSON. Mr. Hessler should practice what he preaches; he should fill his articles with "clear and interesting argument." Harvard-Radcliffe May 2nd Committee...
...Curtis A. Hessler '66, of Leverett House and Wooland Hills, Cal., who has won the Richard Perkins Parker Scholarship, given annually to the member of the Junior Class "who shall have demonstrated his high qualifications both by intellectual achievement and by participation in the student activities of the college...