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ARTFUL EQUIVOCATIONS are even worse; lynx-eyed sly rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...reporters with Big Picture questions. But that wasn't their job. Their job was to create a mythical city, a sort of Beirut West, views of which would keep many viewers frozen in fear to their Barcaloungers. And, incidentally, send a few of them out to join in the vicious fun. Their masters provided these journalists with almost no opportunity to do what many of them manifestly wanted to do: interrogate authority about strategy and timetables; question experts who knew something about the patterns of urban unrest; follow up a hundred human-interest stories...
There is some question, in fact, whether white fear and suspicion of blacks may be higher than most will confess to pollsters. Some analysts think it is and worry about a vicious circle: white fear of black crime is so high as to lead some to excuse almost any behavior on the part of the police who are supposedly protecting them against it. That leads to verdicts like the acquittal of King's beaters, which touch off riots like those last week, which further intensify white fear. Scholars of both races express this apprehension. Says Henry Louis Gates, chairman...
...American's new fares have ignited a vicious price-cutting war. Only six months ago, you insisted that airfares had to rise if the airlines were going to survive. Why have you reversed course...
This point of refusing to tolerate the neoconservatives' and the New Right's white racist shenanigans must be made as strongly as Rabbi Meir Kahane's Jewish Defense League has made it clear to Americans that a rebirth of anti-Semitism (like the vicious movement of deny the existence of the Holocaust) will no to be tolerated. "Never again...Never again...