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...Return to the Base of Campus Hill the Flarbs were completely tamed. Unmistakable Signs of Love, blind Devotion and unflagging Constancy had so impressed them, that they could now be trusted not to inflict a single Cut, or Slash, while the Riders voted to begin their awful Charge. Indeed, when the Membership dismounted, wingy Talons flapped out to eagerly clutch the sticks to which they'd nailed their gawdy Posters. A joyful Cry went up on revelation of this new Feature of Convenience. The Vote was considered taken. They remounted for the Assault...
...Mentor flapped and scraped around to the Front at full Slash. He silenced the Group by raising his Standard: a two-ended Sword with a Handle at the Middle...
With O what a monstrous Uproar! did seventy-four Flarbs rip and tear, cut, slash, gouge and madly flap their Way up the Hill. Grating with the loud Rustle of eighty-six fiercely shaking, Bile-colored Posters were the shrill Brayings of one-hundred-forty-eight Asses, somewhat flat in Tone, without surrounding Hills to echo and re-echo their challenging Call! Hurling great Clumps of slimy Muck before them and behind them and to their Left and to their Right they gashed beyond all immediate Repair the once neatly trimmed Lawn and closed withunimaginable Petulance and noisy Spite...
Behind conquest-the proof of superiority and inferiority-is the idea of inherent inequality. "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free," is the motto of Attack! A pin worn by NYA members bears the symbol of mathematical inequality, an equals sign with a slash mark across it. The teaching of eugenics, NYA authors feel, will help students learn of white supremacy; and that recognition, their reasoning goes, will give whites the will power to assert their superiority...
...although he often gets carried away by his own black sense of humor, his thinking is lucid. He is attuned to what is going on among the young, the black and the poor today. Almost by definition (and certainly by self-admission), he is biased about everything. His pieces slash away at Viet Nam, complacent politicians, the medical profession, radio journalism, big companies, the pretensions of the "Now People...