Word: agora
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Most of the alternative high schools are kept integrated by aggressive recruiting and informal quotas (Community High, for example, has 65 Third World students and 120 whites, with a white waiting list of 75). The Agora School aims specifically at fostering an appreciation of racial differences and keeps its staff and student body exactly one-quarter each white, black, Chicano and Asian. But three other alternative schools that meet away from Berkeley High are less concerned about integration...
...widely believed that there were no significant emotional differences between the sexes. Winick points out that Alcibiades, one of the leaders responsible for the city's defeat by Sparta, was condemned by Plutarch for his "effeminacy in dress-he would trail long purple robes through the Agora." On the Acropolis, it was hard to distinguish the statues by sex. Says Winick: "Hermes and Aphrodite have the same boyishly slender body, girlishly fine arms, and sexually undifferentiated expression...