Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second to correct some of the mistakes of liberalism which have damaged us in the past and of which we must now be aware. Let us not embrace that high canon of modern foreign policy which holds that it is better to continue the wrong policy than to admit error by rectifying...
Wilson is a Leonardo-haired philosophy dropout from San Francisco State with only two night-school courses in drawing; he is willing to admit that he has taken at least six trips, "before it was illegal, of course." His first foray into bizarre design was his own wedding invitation, worked out in a print shop of which he was co-owner. He followed this with a protest poster against the war in Viet Nam. Both were great hits with the local hippies ("They blew their minds," Wilson recalls), and soon he was being commissioned by rock-'n'-roll...
Riesman and Jencks contend that the Negro colleges never had a satisfactory rationale for their separatism, existing only because white colleges would not admit black students. Dependent largely upon whites for financial survival, the schools have never been aggressive in attacking segregation. For officials of these colleges, "the result was usually self-contempt, born either from acceptance of the white view that Negroes were inferior or from disgust at having succumbed silently to an outrageous injustice, or from both." Their schools became "an ill-financed, ill-staffed caricature of white higher education...
Frustration & Boredom. Most Negro colleges, the authors write, are staffed by a "domineering but frightened president" and a "faculty tyrannized by the president and in turn tyrannizing the students." They "admit almost any high school graduate who will pay tuition and graduate most of those who keep paying." But about half the students simply opt out-and not without reason: "These colleges are so monotonous that it may well be the better students who leave, in frustration or boredom...
Separate Negro colleges could justify their continuing existence by "channeling outside money and ideas into the local Negro community," by concentrating on Negro culture, or merely by serving as "residential secondary schools" to offset poor instruction in lower grades. But all these alternatives, the authors admit, would "entail an intolerable loss of status." In effect, Riesman and Jencks urge most Negro colleges to lower their sights. For most academically untrained and unmotivated students, black or white, the best that a college can expect to do is "improve their basic skills a little," give them an idea of what middle-class...