Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class was," notes Amherst Admissions Director Eugene Wilson. "Then it was how many Merit Scholars you got. Now the status symbol is how many Negroes you get." Although the hot pursuit is dismissed by some of the quarry as a cynical and faddish courting of color, most of those chosen are vastly pleased...
Instant Negritude. Among the chosen Negroes who are not entirely uncritical of the fact that colleges now covet them, Cecilia McDaniel, an A student in Winston-Salem, N.C., sees her sudden popularity as a form of "reverse racism-an effort of schools to purge themselves of a longtime discrimination against Negroes." She was offered scholarships by Northwestern, Chicago and N.Y.U., probably will choose N.Y.U. because she is interested in drama, figures N.Y.U.'s Broadway-influenced drama department is "more practical" than Northwestern's. Judy Johnson, a bright, outspoken Richmond, Calif., girl, has been accepted by Stanford...
Some of the officials engaged in the pursuit of Negro scholars also have their doubts about how these students are chosen. "A great many colleges want to achieve instant Negritude," contends Benjamin McKendall, an assistant director of the College Entrance Examination Board. What they are really competing for, he argues, are "Negroes who act like white kids." Chicago Admissions Dean Charles D. O'Connell, on the other hand, is convinced that the competition for Negroes is nothing less than a sincere effort by colleges "to improve race relations and society." The colleges also benefit, he argues, since the Negro...
...made enemies for him ever since he left college in Japan 33 years ago and went into business as a rice miller. By the end of World War II, Lee had a whole string of businesses and a special relationship with President Syngman Rhee; he was one of a chosen few to whom Rhee doled out, at the low official exchange rate, precious U.S. dollars that had been acquired by sales of valuable tungsten. For his profitable dealings in "tungsten dollars," Lee was branded an "illicit profiteer" when Rhee was overthrown in 1961 by Chung Hee Park. He fled...
Died. Charles E. Arnott, 85, president of Socony Vacuum Oil Co. from 1931 to 1935, a brilliant salesman who in 1932 introduced the company's Flying Red Horse as a symbol of speed, power and reliability, later became something of a symbol himself when he was chosen in 1934 to help F.D.R.'s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes stabilize the industry's chaotic oil prices by pool-buying arrangements-only to find himself and other oilmen convicted on antitrust charges four years later when the Government decided they'd gone too far; of a stroke...