Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whites, what is it for us?" Merrit's concern is that college will sweep him into the white world and alienate him from his less fortunate black brothers in the ghetto. "I know I can get my $20,000 a year, but then what? Where do I fit into the black community...
Rather, we might imagine, to supplement the right-to-left line for political stances, a linearly independent vector for romanticism. Left-romantics want to change people because they despair that systems can be changed or because they believe that systems will change to fit the change of people's needs. Left-romantics (pragmatists?) want to change the system to change the man (or perhaps for more abstract reasons, justice, etc.). George Orwell, in his essay on Charles Dickens, recognized the trends, saying, "They appeal to different individuals, and they probably have a tendency to alternate in terms of time...
...acids are strung like beads, look like a letter T. The middle part of the T varies little from antibody to antibody. The chains' ends at the tips of the crossbar constitute the antibody's active regions and can be varied in billions of different ways to fit the structure of the particular foreign molecule that it is equipped to combat...
...talk moves to the problem of black students who refuse to be taught by white professors. Harding feels that "some black militants who are needed in the field of higher education just will not fit well into a mixed setting." But he concludes, "Ultimately we will have a far more healthy society if people are free to decide what they want to do about integration...
...thinking . . . that there was a moment or two in his epileptic condition almost before the fit itself . . . when suddenly amid the sadness . . . his brain seemed to catch fire at brief moments, and . . . his vital forces were strained to the utmost all at once. His sensation of being alive and his awareness increased tenfold at those moments which flashed by like lightning. His mind and heart wear flooded by a dazzling light. All his agitation, all has doubts and worries, seemed composed in a twinkling, culminating in a great calm full of serene and harmonious joy and hope, full of understanding...