Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain's political rostrum. The National Front is a modern-day Nazi party, an avowedly racist and nationalist organization whose structure, tactics and goals all recall Hitler's National Socialism. Its surprising progress in recent local elections and by-elections is alarming Britain's political establishment, and provoking violent nationwide debate and confrontation...
...interview published in the London Times on August 30, 1977, Tyndall expounded upon his party's ideological foundation, and elaborated upon the Front's social and economic platforms. He advanced National Front programs for social and economic reform, education, foreign affairs and immigration in the harshest and most violent terms. If his language was nothing else, it was decisive, and for a nation heading downwards amidst a melee of impotent, if not economically disabling, government interventions, that decisiveness in itself is becoming increasingly attractive...
...explanation for the Front's ongoing surge at the polls is twofold. Most immediately, the high profile it has assumed through its extreme and violent tactics has focused attention on itself. The bloody marches it has organized through non-white districts and its extreme racist propaganda have kept the Front on the front pages of Britain's daily newspapers...
They gather in some dark restaurants and bars, these punks who are to the violent passion which rips through their music like so many pins and needles poking surprise where order...
Harvard now finds itself with a 12-13 overall record with absolutely no chance to make the ECAC playoffs which start next week. As for the final melees, who started them doesn't matter, what does is that those violent outbursts disgraced an otherwise prestigious tournament and doled out an excess amount of shame that will be both schools' to bear. Unfortunately, Boston University will have the playoffs to get over it, Harvard won't. An unmerciful season has all but mercifully closed...