Word: malcolms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keynotes of the present wave of political activity is student-faculty cooperation against the administration. At St. John's, a Catholic college in New York, the faculty backed a student demand for permission to form political clubs, to invite controversial speakers (they wanted Malcolm X, Madame Nhu and Governor Rockefeller), and to end censorship of the newspaper and "paternalism" generally. In return, students supported the faculty's demand for higher salaries and greater participation on the school's governing board. Students have rallied in support of faculty against "the system" in tenure cases at numerous colleges, notably Yale and Berkeley...
After a visit to the U.S., Malcolm Muggeridge, onetime editor of Punch, complained: "I'd have joined a Trappist order rather than take more. All those ghastly novels-sex is an obsession with the Americans." Besides, adds Muggeridge, "if the purpose of pornography is to excite sexual desire, it is unnecessary for the young, inconvenient for the middleaged, and unseemly...
...pilgrims came from all over the world. The King and Queen of Malaysia chartered a plane for the hajj; from the U.S. came the widow of Malcolm X. Also on hand was a group of Senegalese who in January began a 3,400-mile walk across the African desert to the Red Sea. At Jeddah on the Red Sea, gateway to Mecca and starting point for the pilgrimage, hajj flights landed every ten minutes round the clock at an airport that normally sees only a dozen commercial flights a day. In and near Jeddah's harbor, more than...
...MALCOLM L. DIAMOND...
...faculty members who had walked out of a faculty meeting to demand salary increases and greater academic freedom. Rejecting the "reactionary paternalism at St. John's," students claimed that the administration had kept them from hearing such speakers as Socialist Norman Thomas, Senators Kenneth Keating and Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Madame Nhu. They composed a protest song, which began...