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...Panthers and their supporters staged a relatively mild street demonstration, demanding McLucas' complete exoneration. Overall, however, there was an atmosphere of good feeling that had hardly been evident at the trial's outset. Beginning with the May Day demonstrations in New Haven that almost erupted in bloody rioting, city and court officials were nervous about potential violence. Bulletproof windows were installed in Judge Mulvey's courtroom, and protesters were banned from demonstrating on the courthouse steps. Marshals frisked those attending the trial...
Speer offers a special insight into Hitler's strength and weakness. He sees the man as a gifted amateur: "He arrived at the core of matters too easily and therefore could not understand them with real thoroughness." At the outset of the war, Hitler surprised his enemies with tactics they did not expect. But, Speer adds with a professional's disdain, "as soon as setbacks occurred he suffered shipwreck, like most untrained people." Speer became the miracle man of German war production simply by unifying a system fragmented by the conflicting demands made upon it by Hitler...
...important thing to reali? from the outset, is that it is impossible to be inferior and equal at the same time: it is impossible to consider y?r role as a "good woman" to be that of ten-derly supporting whatever n?e you happen to be with in what ever he wants to do, and at the same time make plans for your own cr?ive existence...
...RADCLIFFE the exploitation of women is less obvious but just as deep as in other areas of American Society. At the outset, the "ideal" of Harvard elitism, borrowed heavily from the English universities, is basically one of male intellectual clubbiness-thus some common rooms are still closed...
...balanced work. The important point, he understands, is that, in this particular bit of history, there are no clear-cut heroes and villains, no exploiters or toilers or even hypocrites. The sailors were, in effect, demanding the implementation of the government's own political and economic promises; at the outset, at least. they sought no breach with the party, but rather unity on the basis of the programs for which they and the party had struggled for so long. The sailors' echo of Lenin's slogan, "All power to the Soviets" represented a threat to the Bolshevik government under siege...