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Richard Attenborough's much-Oscared movie Gandhi struck me, when it was first released, as an example of this type of unhistorical Western saintmaking. Here was Gandhi-as-guru, purveying that fashionable product, the Wisdom of the East; and Gandhi-as-Christ, dying (and, before that, frequently going on hunger strike) so that others might live. His philosophy of nonviolence seemed to work by embarrassing the British into leaving; freedom could be won, the film appeared to suggest, by being more moral than your oppressor, whose moral code could then oblige him to withdraw...
Even after the Supreme Court struck down segregation in 1954, what the world now calls human-rights offenses were both law and custom in much of America. Before King and his movement, a tired and thoroughly respectable Negro seamstress like Rosa Parks could be thrown into jail and fined simply because she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus so a white man could sit down. A six-year-old black girl like Ruby Bridges could be hectored and spit on by a white New Orleans mob simply because she wanted to go to the same school...
Halley's argument struck a chord with severalaudience members, some of whom were students ofFallon's and others who were familiar withHalley's work in the area...
...there we have it, the distinctive combination of lawlessness and foolishness that characterizes modern liberalism. With utter disregard for democratic legitimacy and policy soundness, liberals have struck again. This time, however, they were too clever by half, for liberals never have displayed their underhandedness and silliness in purer form...
Sophomore closer Mike Madden struck out four in one and one-third innings to nail down the win, earning his second save of the season and helping the Crimson close out a three-win road week-end to open the Ivy title defense...