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SATURDAY NIGHT'S protesters did not silence D.W. Griffith, they did not prevent past and future showings of his films, they did not suppress racist ideas or ideas with which they disagreed. On the contrary, they said they'd welcome showings of Griffith's film in different, more avowedly controversial contexts, and on Monday afternoon they agreed to just such a showing. Even if the protesters' desire were to suppress Griffith's movie or ideas, they couldn't. It's silly to identify their action with official strong-arm tactics, or with other potentially dangerous attempts at dictatorial rule, because...
...only trouble is that the meanings Ford attaches to what he says are sometimes so divorced from reality. A defense of the CIA on the grounds that Popular Unity tried to suppress political opposition is easier to disprove than a denial that the CIA intervened, so it has less serious consequences, but its resemblance to the truth is hardly closer. Too many of Ford's basic assumptions--that any government friendly to his government deserves and indeed has its people's support, for instance, or that what's good for General Motors is good for the world--are lies. However...
...Globe thus viewed itself as a responsible party in the busing feud, and its editors shed the pretense of pursuing truth when they agreed to suppress some aspects of the news. Because forecasts of violence might be reckless or drunken prophecies from self-appointed augurs, they are perhaps not news and should not be printed anyway, but the Winship mandate betrays a self-important attitude maintained by the fourth estate over this two-week period, that it must support the state in its efforts to integrate...
...ideas like national self-determination and workers' rights. But they decided to modernize their countries' technologies while shoring up their crumbling social systems--a decision like the one the United States would make later on, when it decided to help developing countries' governments modernize their economies and suppress their people's revolts. In the long run, the fascists' effort proved as fruitless as the Trottas' family pride. But that didn't help Roth--who died in 1939--or people destroyed by the attempt...
...could not suppress a somewhat derisive grin when I found President Ford with his dirty shoes resting on the desk at the White House. To us Orientals, any desk is meant for reading and writing and not for putting shoes on, no matter how spick-and-span they may be. I am horrified to imagine what the new U.S. President will do in his office next. Please ask him not to chew gum while deciding the fate of nations...