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...tools in a certain way to render a given conclusion or, if ingenious enough, by creating new analytic tools. It is no accident that the Cambridge-educated economist Joan Robinson aids Mao in his economic theories for the Chinese economy; or that Marxist historian Christopher Hill is Master of Balliol College, Oxford. They have mastered their respective fields--and superbly express their political biases in the context of their respective disciplines. It is imperative for blacks to attempt to do the same if knowledge is to have any effect on the black struggle...
...idealism to work in the U.S. In his senior year at Berkeley, he earned the highest grade-point average (3.9) in the College of Letters and Science?then decided that he had become enslaved to "American fanaticism" about achievement. On a Fulbright scholarship at Oxford's Balliol College, he earned a doctorate with a dissertation on The History of St. Anselm's Theology of the Redemption in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. But his discontent with the U.S. deepened...
...class background clashes sharply with the traditions of the blue-blood-dominated Conservative Party. The son of a master carpenter, Heath is a rarity among Tory Prime Ministers: a man who is not a product of one of Britain's select public schools. Heath did, however, attend Oxford's Balliol College, on an organ scholarship. Some acquaintances claim that they can still detect a trace of cockney in his acquired upper-class accent. "His vowels betray him," says a fellow Tory, who recalls that some party members would mimic Heath's peculiar accent behind his back...
...speculating about the personality of the working-class boy who turned himself into the archetype of the perfect Tory gentleman: sleek, immaculately tailored, slightly haughty and terribly self-contained. He is, some Tories claim, simply too good to be true. One acquaintance traces Heath's transformation back to Balliol: "When Ted went to Oxford, it was during the terribly class-conscious Britain of the '30s. He knew at Oxford that if he wanted to get ahead, he'd have to adjust. Ted shucked his working-class accent, clothes and whole life style for that of the upper class...
...have chosen a musical career if he had not gone off to war (he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army). Although his organ playing has been more publicized, those who have heard him consider his piano playing more accomplished. He contributed toward the organ at Balliol College, and still likes to return to play it. Says one acquaintance: "I've seen Ted's eyes glaze when he's talking with even the most attractive woman. The only time he really lights up is when he's conversing with someone bright about music...