Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children are born to accept their parents' dictums so easily, and Coles vividly portrays the experiences of children who are taught the second theme of their privileged lives, paternalism. Hence the example of Larry, the young son of a grower who persists in asking his father, at the age of six, why there are children his age working in the fields, helping their parents, when he himself was doing nothing. His feelings take on a stronger idealistic tone at 11, when he writes an essay in school explaining why he is lucky and "unlucky" and how he does not want...
...about un--precedented economic progress with its promise of a material Utopia--abundance, the arguments go, will eradicate class conflicts and education and enlighten the masses so they will naturally agree with other classes on societal goals. Stability and prosperity will hold sway, and all members of society will accept the legitimacy of capitalism as the means of production...
...goals will never be achieved. This recognition must be a dynamic process, not merely as compensation for past oppression, but as acknowledgement of the fact that Third World people comprise a large and growing proportion of this nation's population--a portion of the population that will no longer accept being denied the wealth and opportunity they helped create...
Finally, an example of the backlash of the Bakke case was the abolishment of the Minority Review Committee, which reviewed decisions of the admissions committee not to accept Third World students. This had been the only opportunity that Third World student had to be understood on their own grounds. But despite all the trouble, minority student recruiters are still responsible for the bulk of the outreach to inner city and Third World high schools--which is why we must keep and expand our toehold...
Broumas said yesterday she was pleased to accept the honor and added, "It is very important that Ivy League institutions acknowledge the fact that they have a large lesbian population. We aren't just, as people like to believe, in the world of the lower classes; we are everywhere...