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...returning to the diversity of the past, by restoring a facsimile of such seemingly decrepit neighborhoods as New York's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Telegraph Hill. Mix rich and poor residents, she cried, old and new buildings, add a few cultural facilities for ferment, and cherish the small shops that provide neighborhood intimacy...
...chance. It cannot be proved, of course, that a different U.S. attitude would have produced a different mood in China. But as Richard Nixon observed during last year's campaign: "We simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates, threaten its neighbors. There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation...
...poor sell-outs don't cherish growing up absurd. In fact they're quite defensive about it, so much so that they cannot allow themselves to see alternatives other than the one they have taken. How else can they justify themselves--after all the social conscience doesn't pack up her bags in a huff and leave. Like God of Christian fable she waits and knocks insistently, perhaps pathetically, at the door after she's been thrown...
Unrealism still exists in abundance on both sides of the conflict. The Israelis cherish the notion that, left alone by the big powers, they
...that the colleges are the failures. The reaction is natural; white administrators simply failed to foresee it. For lower-class Negroes, whose whole lives have been spent in black ghettos, the sudden move to white campuses often produces cultural shock. Everything is so white. How can a slum Negro cherish the glories of Greek culture, for example, while his sister supports him by ironing The Man's shirts? Even middle-class Negroes are often upset. Says Byron Merrit, a political science major at Syracuse University: "If white education is increasingly 'irrelevant' for whites, what...