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While many people had never forgotten the questions, more than a few were at a loss for answers. The fluidity of religious choice in the U.S. had left a large part of a generation without familiar touchstones. Unhampered by family or social pressures, often raised in an atmosphere of benign tolerance-even indifference-the young especially were virtually impelled to go on their own quest for religious roots...
...seems to me that the crucial error in Dan Swanson's article (March 16) and Martin Kilson's letter (March 22) is the assumption that apartheid is benign. I would say that at Harvard this malignant apartheid is more of a handicap to white students, whose welfare neither Kilson nor Swanson have considered. I would advise any black student who wants to learn about white society or its so called success methods to go out and learn about Cambridge and Boston--something which is very easy to do. A black student can learn about white society in the Institute...
Operations performed in outpatient programs include plastic surgery and some ear, nose and throat operations, as well as hernia repairs and minor orthopedic surgery. Many hospitals also find the outpatient approach ideal for the removal of benign tumors and cysts and early abortions. Even for those relatively minor operations, though, hospitals select their patients carefully, turning back the elderly or those with physical conditions that are likely to cause complications...
...Swanson's "Benign Apartheid at Harvard" is a bit much. It is one of the more disturbing examples of the paternalistic pat-on-the-head that white leftists are wont to give black separatists for their so-called Black Power posture toward white racism and white power structures. In regard to Dean John Dunlop, Swanson is simply wrong. There was nothing racist about Dunlop's efforts to restore academic standards to Afro-American Studies. He was doing little more than following proposals that I and Professor Orlando Patterson had formulated over a year...
...short, the benign apartheid here is perfectly comprehensible. It is not absolute, and some friendships are made between blacks and whites. Although inter-racial contact is far from being unhindered, the barriers seem to be slowly dissolving. But they are still very real, and a semi-separate society will probably continue here for some time. No amount of white hand-wringing can change that...