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...TIME cinema critic, views his subject as father to all the auteurs to follow, and with good reason. Griffith had both a view and a vision. In Birth of a Nation (1915) he restaged his father's Civil War, complete with dramatic scenes of the Ku Klux Klan that brought charges of racism along with blockbuster success. In Intolerance (1916) he took on, among other things, Belshazzar's feast, with elephants, dancing girls and collapsing Babylonian towers...
...workshop focused on the Reserve Officers Training Corps, which does not admit homosexuals. Conference spokesman Michael R. Sullivan, a graduate of the University of Delaware, called the presence of the ROTC a "philosophical-ethical issue" and likened collegiate sponsorship of the ROTC to official recognition of the Ku Klux Klan...
...against Blacks in America is a continuing legacy of what, until recently, was perhaps the most grotesque aspect of Black life in America: the fact that one's life could at any time be snuffled out at the whim of a white police officer, or some terrorist from the Klan, or a bunch of people who might, just for the hell of it, decide to decorate their trees and telephone poles with Black bodies. This went on everywhere, not just in the South...
...nuclear powers: the U.S., Britain, France, Israel, the People's Republic of China, South Africa, India and the Soviet Union. The protesters chanted "Hop, hop, hop, Atomraketen stop" and other anti-deployment slogans. Outside the Soviet embassy overlooking nearby Bad Godesberg, hooded men in Ku Klux Klan robes hauled a float carrying six models of silver Pershing II missiles, as four white-faced death figures walked behind. Above a crowd of protesters at the British embassy bobbed U.S. flags on which the red stripes were depicted as missiles and the stars as skulls. Shortly before noon, the demonstrators paused...
...minute question and answer session following Bond's Law School Forum speech, the senator fielded questions on subjects ranging from the Ku Klux Klan--whose immediate danger he dismissed--to unwed teenage pregnancies, which he addressed as a minority issue...