Word: barriere
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...speech at the centennial observations of Boston College Saturday, President Kennedy said, "We are learning to talk the language of progress and peace across the barriers of sect and creed. It seems reasonable to hope that a similar process may be taking place across the quite different barrier of the higher learning.... The new realities of our day have combined to intensify the focal role of the university.... Accelerating change is the one universal human prospect. The universities must help...
...bill's detractors kept this simple measure in Senate Committee for five years. Judging from the large majorities it received upon finally reaching the floor last year and this year, the only important barrier remaining is the House Interior Committee, where the commercial interests can concentrate their pressure...
...bears them no personal ill-will, since he, too, has "Liberal friends." (To avoid any further identity confusions I'd better say here that I am a "white," of "Jewish" background, and a radical.) J.G. offers the white liberal and the country one simple solution to dissolve the "race barrier"--to treat "the individual as an individual." The problem, supposedly, is entirely psychological and can be overcome by an internal change of attitude. If we only have the spirit within us the barrier will fall. Fortunately for the white liberal this is an arch-typal position--the individual...
...population. We need not wonder if there is injustice done to groups in America as long as our personal friendships are A-OK. But the fact remains that so-called Negroes are damaged en masse by the imposition of what I agree with Mr. Gillman is an artificial barrier, as, indeed, are the so-called whites, though their scars are less likely to show up in the simple test between "scientist" or "drunkard." This barrier, however, is not only in the mind, but in institutions and practices--divisive, violent, and exploitative. We can not ignore the reality of segregation itself...
...send his usual five. Harvard is the inly Ivy team without a representative on the list of ten top scorers, but then this gives the Crimson a "balanced" attack. In seven league contests, six different players have taken game scoring honors, although no one has broken the 20-point barrier...