Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard is very careful in the way it phrases things--what may have the effect of a threat on its employees is always worded in a protected way," he added...
...streets, in the shops, in the factories. Locked into their own form of narrow white tribalism, whites deal with the blacks, pay them, talk of them in cliches, but do not really see them. Then there are "the blacks" as a large, looming abstraction, a vast uncertain threat. It casts an inevitable shadow over the heart breakingly lovely landscape, over everything that is done, every political act, every economic plan, every white hope. In the mind of the white South African, there is usually very little connection between the two incarnations: the houseboy, the factory worker, the shop assistant...
Certainly the U.S. should not allow itself to be pushed, by the threat of Communist advances, into a policy toward South Africa that is against its self-interest. But all the past reasons for the U.S. support of South Africa-trade, raw materials, strategic position -fade in comparison with the great symbolic issue. 'South Africa has made itself into a kind of international acid test of decency on race. This is not to say that South Africa must be opposed unconditionally on all issues. But the U.S. cannot support the present government unless its policies change. This indeed...
...best way to stop the Red Menace.) Trilling refused to comply with the publisher. She justifies her argument that Hellman's Scoundrel Time will mislead younger readers into thinking liberal support of the House Unamerican Activities Committee was an inexcusable aberration (rather than a legitimate response to the Communist threat) with a long series of attacks on Hellman's own conduct during the '50s. In a long and turgid footnote, Trilling implies over and over that Hellman was a communist, and that HUAC was therefore completely justified in its witchhunt. The logic is shaky, at best...
...year's Open also had dramatic overtones more appropriate to the shootout at the O.K. Corral. Not only was the tournament played for only the second time in history at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma but the FBI bureau office in Oklahoma City received a death threat on Green's life...