Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revival of Ethnicity: With Special Reference to the United States," he moves in for the kill. Here again, the first target of his attack is the American black community. For although he sympathetically argues that the black nationalism of the '60s served as a defiant response to the racial shame American blacks have suffered for two centuries, he also points out that all the posturing and celebration of blackness has done nothing to alter blacks' marginal economic position in American society. An even more dramatic charge follows: the "black power" movement was partially responsible for reviving and legitimizing ethnicity...
...Chauvinism exemplifies precisely the broad humanistic spirit that Patterson champions, and its voyage both through history and into the depths of the human psyche in search of the key to man's need for ethnic identity puts many of today's more superficial and tendentious studies of ethnicity to shame. Patterson explains that one of the reasons he felt this critique necessary is that the new ethnicity intellectuals, in having it their own way for so long, have helped to precipitate the reactionary retreat into ethnicity merely by talking it up so forcefully. It can only be hoped that...
Four days later, Parker's courtroom was jammed with reporters and spectators as he made his decision. The judge came on like a tiger, scolding Helms. "You now stand before this court v in disgrace and shame ... There are those employed in the intelligence-security community who feel that they have a license to operate freely outside the dictates of the law No one, whatever his position, is above the law." Then Parker turned pussycat. He meekly accepted the prearranged deal, fining Helms $2,000 and suspending a two-year sentence. Outside the court, Helms declared...
...should have been dismissed." William Colby said that "Mr. Helms was trying to keep a secret as he was supposed to" under presidential direction and was caught in a change in which "American intelligence is going to operate under American law." Energy Secretary James Schlesinger insisted, "It is a shame that Dick Helms should have been in court at all. It would have been a national disgrace had the outcome been more severe. He should treat the episode like a dueling scar-it underscores his service to his country...
Yale's Varsity football coach Albert P. Bruno said yesterday, "The only thing we're concerned with right now is the football game." He added, "We have no feelings about the strike. It'd be a shame if it did anything to deter from a traditional game like this...