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...This fall the point of many lectures has been that thinking is not necessarily an ally of fascism." On the contrary, it is realized here and there that nonthinking and anti-intellectualism are the real allies of totalitarianism. The Kent and Jackson State killings on one hand, and the wanton bombings by urban guerrillas on the other, have instilled in students a profound fear of repression and violence. One of the few clear trends on all campuses is a rededication to a Gandhi-like philosophy of nonviolence. Yale's Brewster says: "It is much more clearly recognized that Weatherman beget...
...Jackson, the local police, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, and the authorities proceeded with coldblooded efficiency born of long practice, using well-established administrative practices to cover up the wanton murder of blacks. As soon as the troopers had stopped firing, the Scranton Commission reported, they calmly picked up and hid the shell casings lying on the ground. They then agreed on a story and stuck to it in their testimony before the Hinds County Grand Jury and their replies to FBI investigators. All of those interviewed denied shooting-a story so ridiculous that even the local grand jury, which found...
...letter-box be placed under the bulletin-board that has been raised for the weather-reports? Some persons have expressed a fear that our embryo Thomassens would exercise their boyish propensities for mischief on the letter-box instead of on the much-enduring drain; but public opinion against their wanton mischief would be much stronger if our own personal convenience were to be interfered with. To obtain this improvement, it would, we suppose, be necessary to present a petition to the Post-Office authorities, and we hope that the suggestion will soon be adopted...
Reich's three categories are first presented historically as stages in a familiar pageant entitled, "How America went wrong . . . and the rebirth of human values that is emerging in the new generation." For Reich weighs the American past and finds it wanton. The Consciousness I period is associated with the young Jeffersonian Republic-freedom-loving, egalitarian, expansive, democratic, though lamentably competitive. Its spirit stifled slowly, as America evolved into another political caricature, the pinched, repressive, committee-loving, life-suppressing, reform-minded meritocracy, which Reich seems to regard as something very like Hell on Earth. Decisive moments in this decline...
...said he mourned the "wanton and senseless murder of patrolman Schroeder" and pledged scholarships grants amounting to $94,500 to all mine of Schroeder's children...