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...appropriate first object for revolutionary zeal." Instead of seeing the university as "the wicked servant of a wicked world," he said that "it would seem to me that the institution before all institutions which university men would choose not to attack in anger and in hate with intent to maim or cripple or destroy . . . would be the university itself...
...sick with disgust at the behavior of the so-called authorities, who far too often react to every moral question raised by the young with incredible stupidity and obscene cruelty. This grandmother is full of contempt for the lazy, sloppy sheep of her generation who prefer to maim or kill a child rather than question their own joyless values...
...badge." He concluded that "it is as though we delivered our children to someone who took them away for four or five hours every day in their formative years to watch police interrogations, gangsters beating enemies, spies performing fatal brain surgery, and demonstrations in how to kill and maim...
...Daniel Walker was No. 2 man) cited the restraint practiced by the police as a major factor in keeping the April riots from becoming even "more violent and widespread." But after April 1968, Daley criticized his police for their restraint and urged them to shoot to kill arsonists and maim looters. Says the report: "The effect on the police became apparent several weeks later when they attacked demonstrators, bystanders and media representatives at a civic-center peace march...
...Negroes, draft evasion and the Viet Nam war in terms of a factitiously conceived parallel with the draft riots of 1863. So slipshod is the play that at one point the draft dodgers, who have been presented as militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went off to play Hamlet and ended up as a circus clown. Shirley Jones looks decorative...