Word: burden
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...most interesting article, Pan Africanism and the White Man's Burden, was written by Aryee Quaye Armah who graduated from Harvard in 1963 and is presently studying at the Institute for African Studies, University of Ghana. Armah attempts to prove that Pan-Africanism is not simply a reaction to British colonialism, but rather is an outgrowth of it. Summarizing his thesis, Ahmah says "that the seeds of Pan-Africanism can be found in Britain's imperial ideology, and that it is through the working out of the (British) ideology that Pan-Africanism came to fruition...
Armah indulges in an over-simplified historical approach to describe the ideology of the "White Man's Burden." An unequal conflict is depicted between the Britisher, "arrogant, triumphant, an industrial success," who attributes his prosperity to "biological and moral superiority," and the African, who from 1828-1875 was "not only weak, but throughly demoralized and degraded by the slave trade...
Gross gets paid $127,164 a year, and his 57,669 shares of Lockheed stock (worth $3,450,000) earned him another $115,338 in dividends last year. In return, he runs an orderly administration in which, says Lockheed Director William A. M. Burden, onetime Assistant Commerce Secretary for Air, "He does not impose details, as other large aerospace companies do, but gives scope to other people...
Those "other people" emphatically include Dan Haughton, 54, Lockheed's president since 1961. He and Gross behave, says Burden, "as if they were running a small partnership." Haughton, an Alabama coal miner's son, put himself through the University of Alabama by moonlighting in the mines, graduated ('33) as an accountant, and joined Lockheed in 1939. A prodigious worker who arises at 4 o'clock every morning, rarely gets to bed before midnight, he spends at least half of his time jetting about through Lockheed's 34-state corporate domain...
...faces the draft and has any moral qualms about the war is going to have a major psychological hang-up," he said. For this reason, he said, there should be "a whole gamut of responses possible" for the potential draftee. He suggested that young men could "share the burden of the war, but not its purposes" by joining the Peace Corps or Vista "until there is a better war to fight," or by volunteering their services to a U.N. standing army...