Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that anyone should care particularly what Harvard has done to me except that I think is has done pretty much the same to a lot of others. Starting out proud because I had gotten into Harvard, I grew more insecure as I learned about the hundreds of others who had, and the thousands of others who might have. Starting out reasonably sure what I wanted to do for a career, I became steadily less so. I was in many ways a typical 1965 freshman: getting drunk on weekends, pulling all-nighters and cutting some classes, primarily to prove my independence...
...history of many creative relationships with blacks. We have shared a great deal. While your grandfather was being whipped in Mississippi, my grandfather was being killed in a pogrom. I may be dead wrong on this, but I sense that blacks say to themselves: "Look, the Jews have gotten it in the neck, too; yet they've been extraordinarily successful in this country. How do I explain their success and black nonsuccess?" They're certainly not going to conclude that Jews are better than black people. But there is a convenient alternative explanation. Just assert that the Jews...
...symbolic canary. But Frank's college-educated brother Vince (Alex Cord) has acquired new credit cards of identity. Not for him the violent memories, the long jags on vino, the crude labor racketeering. His work is the more up-to-date business of "washing" dirty money: making ill-gotten gains look legitimate by putting them through business firms that the mob has taken over. The new rulers have also learned to watch their Black Handiwork; to them, the older brother is an embarrassing antique, to be brought up to date or kept out of sight...
...shrugged in his I-Don't-Want-To-Hurt-Anyone's-Feelings-and-Anyway-I'm-Only - Doing-This-For-Vogue-For-Money way, very endearing, really. I felt sick. I watched a few executives in the audience yawn and felt like a thirteen year old who has gotten pregnant by sitting on a Tijuana toilet seat. If these guys were bored by the Street Choir, they'd be stupefied by the Bead Game. Goldstein went looking for an aperitif, and the hopes for the Boston Sound were personified by the queasy expression on his face when he found...
...house, black administrators, and black professors teaching courses in black history--to imagine this is to view a school that is quite different from the Wellesley of today One student's remarks typified much of the student reaction to such a change, "I'm satisfied with what I've gotten out of Wellesley. I don't feel that black students have any legitimate grievances." Her remarks reflect not so much prejudice as just a basic resistance to change...