Word: succor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piece of cake is larger than his. Fairness, evenhandedness, seems a natural property of equality-first come, first served-and accounts for that deep-seated American prejudice against queue jumpers and insiders' advantages. Equality also speaks to the generous impulses: the readiness to help the other fellow and succor the needy, the unwillingness to seem superior to one's fellow man or lord it over...
Meanwhile, the girls are explaining to anyone within earshot why the clandestine bordellos should be reopened. "To begin with," said a petite blonde named Paula at one press conference, "we bring business to neighborhood shopkeepers. Secondly, we succor bodies in distress. Finally, we're all mothers, you know, and you can't expect us to live on the government's family allowance...
...know what's meant by an absent-minded professor," Stewart comments). The level of script and wit is such that Stewart even delivers contrived asides and winks to the audience, appealing for sympathy and, at the show's conclusion, another chance next week. He should seek succor instead from the producer-director-writer, Hal Kanter, whose previous contribution was Julia...
...however, one must recognize the legitimate frustration that caused it. To an endless war has recently been added the legalized persecution of Panther leaders. The Nixon Administration's acts of repression are reaching such depths that the Panthers feel compelled to threaten race war in the absence of effective succor from white radicals. One cannot be surprised that radicals are fighting the government with whatever tactics come to hand. After years of futile reliance on mass marches, militant street actions must look good...