Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rostrum. "Strom Thurmond loves burning yellow babies and starving black babies," read one of the signs they carried. A Thurmond comment on Viet Nam ("We'll have to fight elsewhere if we don't win here") brought forth chants of "Kill! Kill!" When the Senator finished, he left amid a barrage of obscenities from black students...
...only rhetoric, but such rhetoric can have corrosive and hypnotic powers of its own. At its core is not merely hate but a vision of power. During an antiwar demonstration in Washington, New Left Historian Staughton Lynd had an almost mystical vision of mob rule: "It seemed that the great mass of people would simply flow on through and over the marble building, that had some been shot or arrested, nothing could have stopped that crowd from taking possession of its Government. Perhaps next time we should keep going...
...deserves a measure of respect. But other aspiring Jacobins seem to regard the shouts and gestures of revolution merely as drugs for instant, mystical satisfaction. Perhaps the most striking feature of the movement is its vagueness. It is determinedly unprogrammatic, unhistorical. Its goals are undefined, and defiantly so. New Left Spokesman Carl Oglesby charts the radical's course in a recent article: "Perhaps he has no choice and he is pure fatality; perhaps there is no fatality and he is pure will. His self-estimate may be sophisticated and in error or primitive and correct. His position...
Lately, however, the bright young men have become very restless. At least 15 experienced reporters left the paper last year. The Journal pictured seven of its young reporters in a 1968 recruiting brochure aimed at college students; five of them have already quit the paper...
...play takes place, according to the program, in "The Artist's Mind." What bugs this prisoner, unlike Kafka's "K." (see CINEMA), is not ignorance of his crime, but of how much time he has left to complete his creative projects. His jailers not only refuse to tell him, they make work impossible by badgering him with camaraderie and kindness-dropping in for chats, cleaning out his cell, entertaining him with inane games and tricks. Nothing these caricatures have to say is particularly trenchant or arresting. But the way they say it is an elegant example of inventive...