Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satirical account of the marriage between a young man of good family and a young woman of not such good, but equally well-off family. They don't have just a photographer to record this less-than-historic occasion, an entire documentary film crew has been engaged to shoot it. And the presiding clergyman is not merely the local minister but a bishop no less, and what matter that his miter is sweat-stained or that he is senile...
...white community reacted with outrage over the shoot-out. The Philadelphia papers were filled for days with endless details concerning the dead officer's funeral arrangements, his wife's tears, and his son's grief. One thousand members of the Fraternal Order of Police came to the funeral. In the meantime, there was outrage in the black community--not over the death of the white policeman, but over the vicious way the police handled the entire situation. Despite claims by Mayor Frank Rizzo and his political hacks that the MOVE organization was universally hated in Philadelphia, most of the black...
...CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding the MOVE shoot-out throw an interesting light on racial conflict in America's cities. They illustrate how what appears on the surface to be a racial conflict actually goes much deeper and ultimately rests on sharp class divisions in our society today. To understand this, one must know a little about MOVE's ideology. First and foremost, the group opposes technology. Its members reportedly eat only raw meat, rarely take baths, raise rats and dozens of dogs. MOVE members refuse to use modern plumbing. They hate cars, airplanes, consumer markets and anything else that is a product...
...course, the vast majority of middle-class whites vigorously rejected the validity of all the tenents of the MOVE ideology. The blacks, however, were much more receptive--that is why 300 of them hurled bricks at the police shortly after the shoot-out. The reasons, again, go deeper than simply skin color. Whites can hardly be expected to accept social criticism as readily as blacks, who have long borne the onus of American capitalism. It logically follows that whites would therefore disagree more fervently with a group such as MOVE when the group points an accusing finger at the laws...
...Philadelphia notables claim it to be, then what fed the dissatisfaction and anomie that led MOVE to face self-destruction rather than to surrender to the dominant forces of their age? This question never appeared in all the dozens of articles and editorials that appeared after the shoot-out. Yet the greatest thinkers in history have all mused with considerable ambivalence over these very questions. If perhaps the MOVE members can be labled crazed psychotics, their ideas cannot be dismissed so easily. For this reason, Rizzo should have left them alone. Their weird antics and heterodox ideology should have been...