Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means let us "Remember the Pueblo": let us remember it for its real meaning, as one bungled example of the American imperialist mission, a mission which entails the daily oppression of, and daily violence against the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Jack Stauder Instructor in Social Anthropology
...view of the Palestinians, Israel is an imperialist colonial power occupying their land. With no hope of driving the Israelis out themselves, the Palestinians aim to provoke Israel into taking over so much territory that it finally chokes on a glut of Arabs within its borders. Moreover, says Arafat, "the very process of Israeli expansion will extend the war of liberation into all the countries bordering on the occupied territories, and they will take up the struggle in defense of their own existence"-perhaps with Russia this time drawn in on the Arabs' side...
Their dishonesty fell into two main patterns. They willfully blinkered themselves against the fact, obvious to Orwell, that British society and ultimately the socialist movement itself rested on imperialist exploitation and the comparative prosperity it conferred on worker and capitalist alike. Dishonesty also expressed itself in the left by a simultaneous clamor for a "strong line" against Hitler (read "war") and demands for peace and disarmament. The British intellectuals, wrote Orwell in August 1941, "for ten dreadful years have kept it up that Hitler is merely a figure out of comic opera. All this reflects is the sheltered condition...
...Harvard community, said that this demonstration would be followed by the organization of anti-war groups in high schools and throughout the Boston community. These organizations would lead to more demonstrations. "Mass demonstration is the principle means to sustain and focus the anti-war movement in an anti-imperialist direction," he said...
After this, the box is supplied with a raised platform so that it seems like the sun deck of an ocean liner. On it sit and stand four characters. One is Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Wyman Pendleton), who mouths Marxist-Leninist platitudes about the irreparable decline of the imperialist West. Another character is a decayed society drone (Nancy Kelly) who recalls her frustrated attempt at suicide together with such intimate details of her sex life as the smooth tautness of her husband's scrotum. Another woman (Sudie Bond) recites the doggerel couplets of a poem called Over the Hill...