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...years. He favors the formation of Negro unions and other organizations, partly to "give the Negro a sense of security that he can compete and organize," but mainly for the "mobilization of Negro political and economic resources into a significant bloc to achieve goals." He draws an elemental difference between the two opposing approaches to Black Power: "Where the builders differ from the burners is that we want to win victories within the framework of the system." Martin Luther King Jr., who began by counseling his people to "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and pray for them...
...pronouncements of Mill and Clark Kerr differ in several ways; the first is exclusionary, the second is ready to incorporate any interest that society urges upon it; the first distinguishes between higher and lower knowledge, while the second distributes its emphasis in accordance with available financial support. Most important, perhaps, the older view regards itself as bound by intrinsic canons of culture, while the current conception accommodates and molds itself to prevailing trends...
...arguments that persuade Faculty members that a joint committee would now be wise differ sharply from the visions shared by radical student advocates. Some members of Students for a Democratic Society want to see a committee that will bring to an end, for example, military recruitment on campus. Ford has said that he sees little possibility for a significant change in Harvard's recruitment policy; according to Hoffmann, the only Faculty criticism of his motion has been on the provision for a suspension of recruitment; Hoffmann himself says that the suspension request was ill advised, and that while he doesn...
...full Life magazine treatment, with photographs of him in his various uniforms.) More to the point, his critics deplore the occasional unrevised look of his poems--and certainly he can be, at times, both prolix and dull. Some would call him tasteless, but after all, tastes differ...
...scientist who is closer to the pertinent field put it in less provocative terms. "The idea that human races differ in adaptively significant traits is emotionally repugnant to some people," wrote Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky in Mankind Evolving. "Any inquiry into this matter is felt to be dangerous, lest it vindicate race prejudice." Undeniably, racial prejudice is social or cultural in origin rather than biological, and it is understandable that anthropologists, who hesitate to make value judgments on the basis of biological fact, would hesitate also to enter what is fundamentally a sociological-and highly emotional-controversy. Anthropologist Morton Fried says...