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...meek little man sitting next to me, who had been too shy to answer a question I had asked him earlier, now shouted, "Gouge his eyes out!" This wasn't funny. It was scary...
Temper Tantrum. Considering the original provocation, what followed was a temper tantrum unmatched even in the annals of petulant Latin American military men. The generals, feeling surrounded by hostility from much of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, the press, the students and many businessmen, overreacted when even the meek Congress dared to defy them. Radio stations were ordered to stop broadcasting the result of the Alves vote. Censors and policemen invaded newspapers and press-agency offices. The respected daily O Estado de Sao Paulo was ordered to kill its morning edition because a critical editorial warned Costa e Silva...
...probable jail sentence, these issues go far beyond professional ethics. For the sake of clarification and continuation of the "dialogue," I would like to take the offensive more coolly this time, as I have been doing concurrently with Prof. Vogel in California. But this is not an especially meek apology, for the object was, after all, to foment discussion; and as we all know, you yourself are not above "provocative" tactics...
Irrational Nodules. With walk-out and sit-in, march and riot, the no longer meek can be counted on to continue to demand their social and economic inheritance now. Negro parents of limited education demand a say in the running of ghetto schools. Articulate undergraduates-and not a few faculty members-insist on a meaningful vote in the governance of their own institutions. The poor who march on Washington have a more basic desire: the means for a decent existence. Traditionally passive public servants no longer have qualms about shutting down school or sanitation or transportation systems. Agricultural laborers agitate...
Those who stay behind are the truly dispossessed, the old, the ill and, most deleteriously, the alienated young who, in the phrase of Newark Detective Charles Meek, himself a Negro, "dance their hips off, turn on to booze, narcotics, airplane glue, girls." To them, a steady job, in the slang of the ghetto, is "slave," and no amount of youth-corps training at "skills centers" can help them. Many of the jobs open to these youths cannot match either the income or the romance of the traditional ghetto occupation: petty crime...