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"We considered contributing to political campaigns," LaFarge said, "but there was too much disagreement as to which campaigns to support. We wanted some neutral but worthy cause, preferably one that was relatively obscure and in need of help." Most of the gift will go to the Nationai Strephosymbolia Foundation.
It is too glib to say that the candidates have dodged the issues. George Wallace has artfully exploited white fears of black progress; in that unsavory sense, he has indeed confronted the nation's No. 1 agony-race relations. Richard Nixon rightly boasts that he has spoken on 167...
"Worthy of Louis XVI," Mandel termed the belittling comments toward student action in France. These "vanguard youth," he said, have been working constantly over the past five years, united in the struggle against "capitalist imperialism."
To summarize my feelings briefly, I believe that getting "good results" when taking action is an admirable goal, but that, in some circumstances, there is an absolute moral imperative to take action that may or may not produce "good results." If there has ever been such a time for Americans...
Archibald Cox likes to recount a tale of the evening he spent at dinner with a group of radical students and how, after a while, they had forgotten he was there and talked of their plans and their politics in front of him. He and his panel worked hard and...