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Charles V. Hamilton impressed his audiences here with his ability to conceptualize and articulate the manifold problems and tensions imposed by the American racial dilemma. There was no doubt that Hamilton had done his homework, and he drew often from recent experience outside the classroom. He faced questions directly, often taking them beyond their obvious conclusions, and always with striking candor. To the question of what the white's role is in Black Power politics, Hamilton quickly replied: "The (Kerner) Report speaks to whites, not blacks; what happens as a result of it depends on whites. Your place...
...undergraduate instruction, revitalizing house education at the same time. Each house should get a typewriter-sized computer console, Mosteller's committee recommended. It would be available from 8 to 12, seven nights a week, and students could dash downstairs to use the computer for physics problems or for homework in the new computer courses made possible by the new machinery...
...didn't do any homework. They said I was a demoralizing influence. Christmas vacation I was supposed to memorize some Cicero. I didn't hand it in. The teacher gave me a couple of days. I still didn't do it. So he sent me to the principal. He talked to my teacher and found out I hadn't done the work in most of my courses. I had a couple of teachers who were pretty good. They let me do what I wanted. But that Latin teacher he wanted me to do the work as he told...
...kind of all-American sentiments that a U.S. commentator to day would voice only at the risk of being laughed out of the league of sophisticated pundits. "They spent it dying," continued Levin, "so that you can go on watching television, reading books and helping the children with their homework, and so that I can go on listening to Wagner. I don't know about you, but I am grateful and will now say why." As Levin saw it, the confrontation in Viet Nam may be "confused and horrible, its aims blurred, its cost in innocent blood unaccountable...
...happily their writing skills, their research data and their bloodily accumulated wisdom in a single magazine piece as to come pretty close to producing literature. The Johnson piece, it seems to me, is worthy of being preserved as a model for aspiring writers. Hard and consistent discipline and dirty homework are evident all the way. Hard, sweaty writing makes easy reading. I do so admire observing old pros perform...