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Black students argue that the goal of Harvard's Afro-American studies should be to build up the black liberationist mentality and teach specific skills that can aid the cause. "The only reason a black majors in Afro-American studies," says Mark Smith, one of six students on the...
As an all-purpose rhetorical style -overstatement for an overstated time -New Leftese is shared by everybody, including the Old Right. If you are against the System and for authenticity (and who isn't?-even Bill Buckley these days), then you are talking a mild New Leftese without knowing...
The Vice President's campaign biography, a 116-page document called Where He Stands: The Life and Convictions of Spiro T. Agnew, records that as a boy in Baltimore, he used to help his Greek-born father prepare talks before local groups. "While the Governor's best subject was English...
The game was the most striking example of peaceful coexistence at the 19th Pugwash conference of scholars from East and West. In the meeting halls, the delegates, not so frolicsome, sailed rhetorical missiles-though there was general agreement that arms reduction would be wonderful (see p. 21). Georgy Arbatov, head...
When the guns grew silent in 1945, much of the world had been torn apart. "Only slowly did it dawn upon us," writes Acheson in this, the second volume of his memoirs (1941-1953), "that the whole world structure and order that we had inherited from the nineteenth century was...