Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Goodman, "we retailers spend our time watching the public. We're closest to the consumer, and should be the most responsive. I also have a 23-year-old son, and others have youngsters, too. I know how they feel about business and about the world. We have to confront those attitudes...
Both are the first blacks to be elected to run their cities. Both take office with solid assurances of aid and support from not only the black but the white leadership of their communities. And both confront first and foremost the problem of street crime: their cities rank among the highest in the U.S. in homicide rates. A tale of two cities and their new mayors, Coleman Young of Detroit and Maynard Jackson of Atlanta...
Open Dying. But mostly Miss Mannes is pamphleteering for a new attitude toward death. Enough of "hypocrisy." Enough of "evasion." From childhood, death-shy Americans should be taught to confront the corpse: "Look at this face of the aunt you loved. She escaped her body." Honesty is the key -are we doomed to have a book called Open Dying too? At any rate, the best-prepared to die are those who "knew the score right from the beginning and talked of it freely...
THIS IS AN ISSUE which Kilson and older blacks have failed to confront. The black elitist has always positioned himself as far away from the remainder of the black community as he possibly could. Acculturation accomodated this lifestyle quite well. Younger blacks have realized that the aloof professional is of no service to the community. Black students' commitments have been reaffirmed as blacks have penetrated racist blockades by collective effort held together by cultural solidarity. The elite that Kilson envisions is an aloof group that does not fit contemporary needs and therefore offers no attraction for students...
...about it), be rational (but let the emotions flow). Female stereotypes are not so easily remodeled. It makes no real sense to urge that women be submissive (but not too submissive), flowerlike (but not wait to be picked), devoted nest builders (but go forth and confront the world...