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...more than unfortunate that generations, even centuries, of the calm, unperturbably Indian state of mind has bred a dangerous inability to form a unified group and thereby capitalize on their strength as the most exploited, insensitively-treated minority that white North Americans have ever walked all over. None of the people with whom I lived are able to recognize the vital need for creative, effective leadership and solidarity, either within this particular enclave or on a larger scale. Few recognize the significant role of education in achieving these things, the need to encourage their children to take advantage of what...
...assortment of tourist developments has mushroomed on adjacent land. Across from the main entrance to the center is the Greyhound Hall of Fame--honoring not buses, but dogs; more of these racers are bred in Kansas than any other state. At the back of the site are the Dickinson County Historical Museum, the Museum of Independent Telephony, and Sculpture Hall. ("Thirtv-one years of free-hand carvings. 1917 Model T Roadster was over two years in the making. Weighs over 200 pounds. Water in the radiator. Admission $1.25--10 or more, $1.00. Bus drivers and sponsors free...
...England, something had been lost by the war. While Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence attempted to find the essence of an England that was fearfully "contemplating its own past and conscious of its threatened nature," Spender himself was fighting a political and intellectual conservatism that had bred a neurotic fear of change, fiercely inhibiting literary progress...
...these--the famous, the tourists who want to know where Senator Kennedy was really heading, the well-bred rich who would buy hospitality--they are all quietly resented and despised by the year round Islanders. They mar simple beauty. They crowd the roads. They are invaders from the outside world, and the enemy is anyone who got off the ferry after...
...Harvard experience has bred an uncommon sense of the importance of sports in our lives. Athletics are not "big-time" in the sense they are at USC or Notre Dame or Alabama, yet Harvard still produces teams of national caliber (hockey, Harvard and Radcliffe crew, swimming, squash, baseball, sailing and soccer, to name a few) and has walked away with its share of national championships. You can approach them from either...