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AMERICANS SHOULD confront their own past and realize how violence has removed obstructions to social change. Armed struggle freed America from colonial servility, liberated the slaves and mid-wifed the birth of the labor movement. Although violence was not exclusively seen as a tactic by which to achieve progres, it certainly played a progressive role in our past. (The Vietnamese understand our history: their 1945 announcement that they would no longer accept colonial status is patterned after the American Declaration of Independence...
...nagging doubts and self-recriminations, but has instead moved toward its antithesis--a peaceful and humane social order. The success of armed struggle in Vietnam required a moral balancing act of an incredibly sensitive degree. Yet that success can teach America and the rest of the world a possible tactic by which they can travel their own routes to humanity...
...Impounding appropriated funds is a well-established and legitimate power of the President, not a tactic invented by Richard Nixon to perpetuate pollution...
...French may forget that the Anglo-Americans could engage in that traditional tactic known as la riposte. Comfortably embedded in the English language are many French phrases that could be driven out. In the art of politics, coup d'etat might be replaced by kayo, laissez-faire by leave it alone and chauvinist by superpatriot. In the art of love, soiree would give way to the bash, rendezvous to date and femme fatale to sexpot. As for savoir-faire-cool, man. But then, plus ca change...
...language of the editorials seems mild in light of recent years, the University as a whole was shocked by their appearance, and the letters column was flooded with protests from Pusey's partisans ranging from the dean of Public Health to the acting preacher to the University. The tactic of an elongated criticism of Pusey's conduct in office has remained controversial over the past decade: shortly after the pieces appeared, however, he appointed a new dean...