Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gregory thinks that Negroes in general have become so popular "that there aren't enough of us to go around." Some day soon, he says in his routine, "I expect to see a Hertz Rent-a-Negro." White employers, if they would hire Negroes at all, used to go for light-complexioned ones, he observes. "Now they want the blackest faces they can find, and they put them all up in the front of the office." Only the weather bureau, in his view, is behind the times. Gregory threatens to picket the place unless the next hurricane is named...
...plain girls snatch at conversational crumbs tossed by a pair of homecoming queens. At another table are the "social rejects"-girls on the fringes of the elite whose boy friends are now tired of them. "They are still allowed to go to parties," explains a guide, "but they aren't in on the really big decisions, like who the elite will back in student elections...
Parental pressure for grades at Pali is intense; students often retaliate at home by demanding cars, clothes, expensive vacations. "If you aren't aware of the underlying fraud," explains Senior Al Hunsaker, an A student, "then you become a grind. In a way, it's a massive put-on, faking out the community and the family without going through the suffering of a full-fledged revolt." "As long as we don't make waves," a classmate adds, "the administration is happy...
...N.B.C. television cameraman blocked at the stairwells and prevented from taking pictures freely--though he stood there for 15 minutes pleading with the police: "But we're on your side, we want to tell your story, we want to show the public that the police aren't brutal...
...they aren't, the boys at the Harvard News Office are. Probably the most dependable and least exciting group, the News Office crew has little interest in the artistic projects of the Corbu crowd. They publish in the Alumni Bulletin and sometimes earn four figure salaries...