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Extremism See also Fanaticism. drys advocates of Prohibition in America. [Am. Hist.: Allen, 41] rabidly radical faction; principal perpetrators of Reign of Terror. [Fr. Hist.: EB, V: 494] rabid right-wing group ideologically similar to the Ku Klux Klan. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 576] group espousing white supremacy takes law into its own hands. [Am. Hist.: EB, V: 935] (1909–1957) anti-Communist zeal frequently resulted in injustice. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 522] demands Ko-Ko execute one person a month. [Br. Opera: The Mikado, Magill I, 591–592] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Its beacon, the University of California, has held host to Timothy Leafy and the experimentation with LSD, hippie counter-culture and political extremism, as well as the invention of Plutonium, which led to the atomic bomb. Rebecca Knuth (Chair of the Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawaii) presents Burning Books And Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Culture Destruction, a scholarly study of nationalist, ethnic, religious, or political extremism taken to such lengths as to result in the wholesale destruction of libraries as an all-out assault upon cultural values the extremists despise. Rebecca Knuth (Chair of the Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawaii) presents Burning Books And Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Culture Destruction, a scholarly study of nationalist, ethnic, religious, or political extremism taken to such lengths as to result in the wholesale destruction of libraries as an all-out assault upon cultural values the extremists despise. |
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