Volume 39, Number 4 · February 13, 1992
The Golden 'Blade'
By Garry Wills
They made a handsome couple, sitting on the aisle of Spaulding Auditorium—too well-dressed, it seemed, to be students; though they are, in fact, Dartmouth seniors, she majoring in chemistry, he in mathematics. I asked why they had come to hear Pat Buchanan speak, and he answered, with an elegant British accent: 'I just want to see a man who could say words I thought no human being capable of.' What words, for instance? He pointed to a text on the page of Buchanan sayings that had been handed out in front of the auditorium: 'If we had to take a million immigrants in, say, Zulus next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate?' Why did that quote disturb him? 'Because we're Zulus,' said Mdudzi Keswa; and Chuma Mbalu nodded ruefully. I asked if they intended to put any questions to the speaker after his talk. They shook their heads no. They are too dignified to join the protesters outside, who were chanting as they came in:
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