Word: cosmopolitanism
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Rather than hi-falutin' talk we need new thinking-rigorous and cosmopolitan-about the role of Blacks at elite institutions like Harvard. When it is forthcoming we'll see new and viable behavior by Black alumni-not Black alumni weekends but large financial gifts by wealthy and not-so-wealthy Black alumni to endow professorships in African Studies or American Studies, like Armenian-American alumni endow in Armenian studies and for study of genocide in modern states, or Jewish American alumni endow in Middle Eastern Studies, or Irish-American alumni in Celtic Studies. It takes more rigorous reflection on these...
...accident that saw them born within a month of each other in cities only 80 miles apart, Bach and Handel make an odd couple. Handel, whose 300th birthday was last month, was the son of a Halle barber- surgeon who wanted his boy to study law. A well-traveled cosmopolitan, he settled in London, anglicized his name from Handel, and became the dominant operatic and oratorio composer of his day. When he died, a bachelor at 74, he was buried with great ceremony in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. By contrast, Bach, whose birthday falls this week, came from...
PSYCHOLOGICAL HELPERS. These programs borrow a page from the personality quizzes found in magazines like Reader's Digest and Cosmopolitan. In a typical program, the computer offers a list of character traits that might apply to a client, customer or business colleague. The program records which traits fit the subject and then, after a suitable pause for reflection, prints out concrete advice on how best to manipulate that person into making a sale, negotiating a contract or agreeing to hand out a hefty salary increase. Business-psych programs like the Human Edge series (Sales Edge, Management Edge, Negotiation Edge...
...level college, whatever their ethnicity, will become ghetto elites. This means that increasingly Black graduates of Harvard must find ways to impact positively upon the crises of unemployment (60 percent for Black youth) and societal pathologies (crime, unwed-motherhood, unwed-fatherhood, disorganized neighborhoods) from their position in national or cosmopolitan job markets--in new technology firms, research firms, law firms, multinational corporations, federal and state bureaucracies, etc. Effectiveness at this depends upon many things to be sure, but certainly one crucial factor will be Black elites' ability to influence the attitudes (ideological, racial, moral) and the political and public policy...
...pragmatic cosmopolitan, I would repeat the formulation I made in my February 25 letter--that "Black students at Harvard (and other colleges too) who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better...." I would also repeat my critique of Black Alumni weekend. First, it's an illconceived use of Black bourgeois resources. And since the quintet informs us in its letter that the Black Alumni affair last weekend was (sadly, I think) heavily funded by Harvard resources, this event is also an illconceived and illegitimate use of Harvard's funds...