Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soul Courses. This approach was condemned last week by Bayard Rustin, one of the most distinguished of moderate black leaders. "Stop capitulating to the stupid demands of Negro students," Rustin pleaded. The students are "suffering from the shock of integration and are looking for an easy way out of their problems. The easy way out is to let them have black courses and their own dormitories and give them degrees. But what in hell are soul courses worth in the real world? No one gives a damn if you've taken soul courses. They want to know...
...there is no prospect that Europe will now revert to a position of dependence on and subservience to the U.S. such as prevailed 15 and 20 years ago. Georges Pompidou, De Gaulle's likely successor and a seasoned Gaullist (see THE WORLD), may bring a more flexible approach to the government of France but will not soon alter its fundamental doctrines. Pompidou is by no means unfriendly to the U.S. He said last week: "I have always been conscious of the ties of Franco-American friendship, which are as much a matter of the heart as they...
...closely associated through the years, Pompidou and De Gaulle could hardly differ more in taste, temperament and approach to life. De Gaulle believed in the imperious exercise of power; Pompidou has promised to serve the nation as an "arbiter." De Gaulle spoke 19th century French and believed in the magic of being mysterious and aloof. Pompidou mingles easily with jet-setters and peasants alike, a ubiquitous cigarette dangling off-center on his lower lip. De Gaulle liked best the France of the history books. Pompidou lives each day as it comes, reveling in the hurly-burly of politics and high...
...truth. And, in certain cases, Wolfe has made notable gaffs--where the New Yorker study demanded the cruel precision of an Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken on a more structured approach (and he is now working on a reportorial novel), but he will always remain the great journalist of kitsch. He is the chronicler of modern America's myths, and myths have a tendency to go berserk--even as they are being told...
This outlook has its effects on Calkin's approach to Harvard. Back when the University's failure to invest in ghetto businesses was a hot issue, Calkins explained the Corporation's reluctance. The gesture was pointless, he said. Harvard simply did not have the power to solve the problem. If students really cared about helping the ghetto, they should put pressure on the government to wield its might there...