Word: enlightenment
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...Harvard. Author of 22 books, mostly about the disadvantaged and disenfranchised: abused children, the elderly, the indigent and the handicapped. His commitment is incontrovertible. So why has he given up teaching to gab with Phyllis Diller about her facelifts? "I feel strongly that this is the way to enlighten people," Cottle insists. "I'm trying to preserve my inquiry into human behavior through new media." Although Up Close is taped in Los Angeles or New York City, Cottle still lives in Brookline, Mass., with his wife of 19 years and their three children, and maintains a small private practice...
...even if Harvard could somehow control everything that occurs on campus, and turn the College into an integrated paradise, there is little the University can do to enlighten some parts of Boston. When minority recruiters go out to inner city high schools and urge promising students to apply to Harvard, racial tensions in the city of Boston are high on the list of potential applicants' worries. Just this summer, in a well-publicized incident, a Black couple and their two small children were attacked while their car was stopped at a red light by young whites shouting racial epithets. Until...
...Truth. . . And Consequences, White is but one example of a person who did not "go along"--someone who "could have lied, evaded, or covered up--but instead, at great risk to [his own] well being . . . committed truth." Author Greg Mitchell tries to enlighten what he sees as a vast majority of Americans who view "whistleblowers" as "zealots, fanatics, cranks, or finks...
There are several defects in this textbook case theory--a type of argument frequently used to replace serious analysis with programmed responses, and often meant to silence, rather than enlighten, debate. In the first place, all of the nations accused by the State Department vehemently deny military involvement in El Salvador, and have publicly wondered why, if Mr. Reagan is so upset about this conspiracy, he has not bothered to contact their embassies or make any other effort at official communication. In fact, Leonid Brezhnev has asked our President to a summit meeting, in which the issue of El Salvador...
Finally, one mistruth of an example that whites center "on parochial issues" does not a case make. May I enlighten Grafstein in regard to what I know my non-minority friends are doing: 1) Some work with SASC (South Africa Solidarity Committee) and although I am a freshman, I'll bet many non-minorities were in the 1978 march of 3000 against apartheid. 2) The majority of the 60 member committee on El Salvador is non-minority. There is going to be a petition-drive, a movie on the 11th and a teach-in on the 22nd. 3) Some...