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...risk factor enters the equation if the President and other officials even seem to be in a position of yielding to an influential minority. American Jews cannot and should not suppress their feelings about Israel. The problem is to find the dividing line between heated, even passionate advocacy, and pressure that is indeed counterproductive. The very intensity and single-mindedness of Jewish support sometimes overshadows support for Israel by other Americans, making it seem as if Israel were a purely Jewish cause...
...role of narrative strut??. G?dard's importance stems from his central role in this re? evaluation, for though his films ??? a critical allegiance to the forms and conventions of ??? wood cinema, they aspire to a free from plotlessness. Garnished in the trappings of traditional genres, Godard's works suppress ??? scenes? and their narratives lie ??? in between dramatic actions...
Guatemala's top clergy is largely foreign, not to mention white; the director of the National Secretariat of Bishops is an American. Americans usually head the continual drives for funds, for obvious reasons. Many "paganized" forms of Christianity have evolved, but the Church does everything it can to suppress these, explaining "these minority groups frequently cause situations of conflict with the rest of the population." (See official introduction to Aldous Huxley's "Practicas Religiosas en Mesoamerica" (Religious Practices in Central America). Semenaria de Integration Social Guatemalteca, No. 11, 1965. Quote is from footnote #5 on page...
...statement charges that the University, faced by OBU's just demands and restrained radical action, "retaliates with its unilateral power, couched in legalities, to suppress the very protests that spurred it to at least acknowledge the injustice of its former policies...
statement charged Harvard with attempting to suppress all dissent by "taking a mechanical and legalistic" stand on a demonstration that did no damage and did not "seriously disrupt" University functions...