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When Martin tries to offset the statistics with such personal observations, his economists sometimes complain that he has not given enough weight to the staff's figures. At such times, Martin likes to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton to show that he, too, takes his polling modestly: "A drunkard uses a lamp pole for support, not for illumination...
...palace, Arosemena refused to resign at first, then bowed to superior firepower and was bundled onto an air force plane bound for Panama. All this was classic, but this time there was a variation. The reason given by the military brass for its coup: that Arosemena was a drunkard who had "spotted the national honor...
...cannot be a program. What really results if we treat the individual as an individual here and now, and ignore the existence of groups as groups?--if we treat persons strictly according to their merits, as J.G. suggests? We establish a heirarchy of society from "scientist" to "drunkard" (as if no scientists were also alcoholics!) and the IQ test becomes our new Bill of Rights. For the lucky few in Harvard this attitude may seem entirely proper, as long as they stay around the Square and don't wander into the shabby area a few blocks below Dunster House. Since...
...fact remains that so-called Negroes are damaged en masse by the imposition of what I agree with Mr. Gillman is an artificial barrier, as, indeed, are the so-called whites, though their scars are less likely to show up in the simple test between "scientist" or "drunkard." This barrier, however, is not only in the mind, but in institutions and practices--divisive, violent, and exploitative. We can not ignore the reality of segregation itself and, yes, the economic and social bases of segregation, in our effort to do away with its psychological effects. John Weber...
...condemned as undemocratic if I say that in the white world the white person is judged on his merits, as an individual; in the gray world everyone should be so judged. The Aryan scientist is a far more valuable person to the rest of mankind than is a Negro drunkard; and a Negro scientist is worth more than a white rapist; these cases of merit are clear. Our trouble is that as the distinctions blur, so do our judgments, and we use aids of blanket categorization rather than individuality. Until our standard becomes one of the individual as an individual...