Word: behavior
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...strengthening themselves from within through intrarace relations that create a greater cultural awareness and a greater cultural solidarity. This is done through Black singing groups and Black history courses and Third World centers, precisely the groups and activities that Kilson says add up to "excessive ethnocentric behavior," which he calls "dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks in institutional participation." The professor never defines "excessive" ethnocentricity, but he constantly puts down this quality in favor of "cosmopolitanism." But this feeling of ethnic belonging is crucial in motivating these future doctors to heal and not to steal, future lawyers...
...real objective of Administration policy, said Shultz in a speech in San Francisco on Friday before the Commonwealth Club of California, is not to overthrow the Sandinistas but to modify their behavior. The Administration wants to force the Sandinistas to make four major concessions: to stop serving as a Soviet surrogate and expel the Soviet and Cuban advisers at present in the country; to reduce the size of their armed forces, now numbering more than 100,000, to the size of those in neighboring countries (18,000 in Honduras, 49,000 in El Salvador); to "absolutely and definitively stop their...
Clancy may also be faulted for setting up a model of macho military behavior that includes potential disobedience of orders. In his zeal to defend the defecting Red October from an Alfa-class Soviet hunter, the commander of a U.S. attack sub considers torpedoing the Alfa on his own authority. Another American officer vows that if the Soviets fire at Red October, then he will destroy the hunter, "and rules of engagement be damned...
...students' lifestyles at Harvard that the Crimson eight to spend more time writing about--namely, the growing cosmopolitanization of their lifestyles, dispersing beyond the one dimensional ethnic cocoon of Black roommates. Black dining tables, Black singing groups, etc. etc. These cosmopolitans among Harvard Black students recognize that excessive ethnocentric behavior is dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks (and other weak groups) in institutional participation, leverage, and clout in American society...
Escentially, he doesn't want to see behavior in his restau that he wouldn't want to see at his own dining room table. "Do you brush your teeth o. comb year hair over the soup bowl in year dining hall?" he asks. "Then why do it here?" He tells his employees never to serve a sandwich they wouldn't at themselves: he wants them to take everything as he does-personally. "If you don't want to obey my rules," heavy calmly "then I don't want you in here...