Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: How hypocritical of Rhody McCoy to expect the Jew to be more noble because of the persecution he faced but not to expect the same of the black man. And how conciliatory of him to state that black anti-Semitism is just following the mainstream of white antiSemitism...
...Sir: As one who has been greatly encouraged by the thoughtful and constructive Essays carried by your magazine in recent months on present-day economic and social problems, I was deeply disturbed and distressed by what I consider unfortunate, almost irresponsible reporting of the current tensions between the black and Jewish populations. Your failure to point to the positive, significant relationships between these two ethnic groups-which far outweigh the incidents of hostility-not only tends to exacerbate the situation, but reflects unbalanced and subjective reporting...
...Sir: Let us cease arguing about which group had it tougher in the past, and instead concentrate on which behaves more responsibly today...
...Sir: Can this be a Wasp plot to divide and conquer by setting two main opponents off against each other...
...Sir: TIME has achieved a new "high" not once but twice, in two successive cover stories. "To Heal a Nation" and "Black vs. Jew" are far and away the ablest, most perceptive and best balanced diagnoses of the nation's two most urgent and baffling internal problems: the deeper causes, and perhaps some prescription for cure, of the pervasive and profound malaise which afflicts the nation's psyche, and the highly complex and intractable confrontation of the nation's two largest and most influential minorities-an alienation which cannot possibly be understood or mitigated merely as resurgent...