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...which they brought with them to Harvard. Kilson advocates acculturation, substituting Ivy League culture for the culture of Afro-America. His argument is influenced by the success and status which he and numerous other blacks of his generation have enjoyed by using acculturation tactics. But students are turning a deaf ear to Kilson, saying that he mistakenly confuses their rejection of Harvard's culture with a rejection of Harvard's academics and incentives to achieve. Failing in his attempts to influence young blacks, Kilson published his opinions apparently hoping to get support from a third party. The reader intrudes into...
...Soviet Union, however, has been reluctant even to discuss the issue, fearing that any settlement might set a bad precedent in its dispute with China over territory along the Manchurian border. During the first rounds of Tanaka's negotiations in Moscow, it seemed that a dialogue of the deaf was in the making. While Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev expanded at length on specific opportunities for Japanese participation in Siberian development, Tanaka tenaciously stuck to the island issue...
...than two or three ways for a vampire to sidle up menacingly behind his victim's back means that the sidlings quickly become repetitious. Less excusable is the distressing obviousness with which Renfield eavesdrops on everyone's conversations: the Victorians may have been dumb, but surely they weren't deaf and blind...
...President actually intended to introduce the tax program. His stand-in on Ways and Means, Democratic Representative Al Ullman, fully agreed. "I don't believe that these are serious suggestions," said Ullman. "They are a trial balloon and a weak one." He added that they would fall on "deaf ears in the committee." Congress is in the process of trying to straighten out its own budget procedures, said Ullman, and is in no mood to deal with "willy-nilly suggestions from downtown." Nor is it at all anxious to add to presidential power, however much economic sense Nixon...
...army officer, he was born in Bangalore, India, and educated at public schools and Oxford. Through his Sequence articles, Anderson won the opportunity to make his first short films-industrial documentaries sponsored by a conveyor-belt manufacturer. His first nonindustrial film, a gentle documentary on deaf children made in 1953, won an Academy Award...