Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last June 16 she showed up at a graduation ceremony in the predominantly Negro Patrick Campbell School. A near riot broke out at the graduation when a Negro minister, the Rev. Virgil Wood, jumped up on the platform and shouted "Hitler" while waving his fist at Mrs. Hicks. The very next day, as Mrs. Hicks well knew, was Bunker Hill Day, a public holiday in the working class neighborhood of Charlestown. Mrs. Hicks received the loudest applause given to any politician in the Bunker Hill Dav Parade...
...what Goldberg does or tries to do seems to have been undercut by his superiors in Washington. Perhaps this should be interpreted as an encouraging sign, since it indicates that those who urge that a negotiated settlement be America's top priority in Vietnam are occasionally allowed a public platform. But the irreconcilables always seem to get the last word...
...impression that they are being let in on state secrets, he said. "In formal meetings there are formal ways of being impolite, but when an official is 'letting his hair down' it is virtually impossible to be critical," he said. To ensure that politicians are not just given a platform, Walzer suggests that students be appointed to study the visitors' positions so that they can question him as a panel when he comes to Harvard...
...rare moment of sympathy for members of the Administration, Peretz said that it was unfair to put proiminent politicians on a platform and ask them to participate in a public dialogue, because they couldn't be expected to present more than a simplified PR image of their compliciated political lives. "If people come here to talk they must be able to be honest, and in order to be honest they must either have a certain distance from their subject or subtlety of speech." Instead of political or ceremonial events, Peretz says he would like to hear Dean Acheson speaking...
...United States government. As such, he stands responsible for its actions in Vietnam. The government of the United States has demanded and received a privileged position for its statements. Despite the fact that all its actions are widely defended in the mass media, and any government spokesman has any platform he desires, it still refuses to submit its policy to critical scrutiny in public debate. For example, government representatives have consistently refused to accept invitations to appear at teach-ins for the last year refusal to debate in the face of widespread demand...