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Daniel C. Thompson, vice-president for academic affairs at Dillard University, talked about interaction between black faculty and students, and stressed the importance of the teacher's position as role-model...
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...goods and benefits has had results-uneven but undeniable. Increasingly, blacks are seen in offices of corporations and banks, in classrooms of elite colleges, in officers' clubs, affluent suburbs, theaters, tourist haunts. Says Daniel C. Thompson, chairman of the sociology department at New Orleans' predominantly black Dillard University: "Being black and qualified is the most valuable commodity in American society...
Generally, blacks still cluster together, whether in city or suburbs. "I wouldn't think of moving into a white neighborhood unless other blacks were there first," says Sandra Dillard, a reporter for the Denver Post. "You see, we are secure in some ways but not in others." Like other American ethnic groups, blacks also prefer the company of one another, and when they have a community such as Atlanta, it is easy to see why. The city remains the black showcase of the nation. Some of America's wealthiest blacks live in suburbs hardly distinguishable from those inhabited...
...passage of virtuoso understatement, Miss Dillard meticulously records the death of a small frog sucked dry by a giant water bug, and with eerie calm reports an afternoon she spent sitting beside a copperhead. "Evolution loves death more than it loves you and me," she quietly concludes. And as the very fecundity of this "eggy animal world" seems to hurry toward its equally profuse extinction, Miss Dillard mercilessly brings on bridge-battering floods and hemlock-bending whirlwinds. Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and "the waste of pain" but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament...