Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ITEMS in the Journal are not so helpful or insightful. One is a reprint from the Columbia University Forum of Conor Cruise O'Brien's "The Counterrevolutionary Reflex," which wearily argues that the United States should not have such a Pavlovian response to communism and revolution, and stops there. The second in particular is Columbia graduate student Samuel Anderson's prose poem, "Mr. Moynihan in Bedford-Stuyvesant." Certainly there are other ways to assert a black identity than by continuing to put down Monynihan. Moynihan's criticism of the American welfare system may still someday make it easier...
...Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs' Black Power issue, its fourth number in four years, went on sale last week, after a year's struggle with finances and printing arrangements. It was worth waiting for. In the Journal's tradition, the issue contains no punditry, and covers some new, previously under-reported, undiscussed ground...
...WITH much the same logic that Martin Kilson, assistant professor of Government, attempts to point up the paradox of black power today. The Journal, to its credit, has beaten Encounter to the news stands with Kilson's views on the subject. Kilson calls black power a "confidence trick" played at the expense of the Negro lower classes. He claims it "seeks a leverage on power in face of abject powerlessness." But Kilson's article is not a mere sideswipe. Behind the article is an as yet unexplored theory which holds that among the ghetto's natural entrepreneurs--the numbers runners...
...some ways, the best article in the fourth Journal is Assistant Dean Archie Epps' "The Theme of Exile in Malcolm X's Harvard Speeches." Epps views Malcolm through Shakespeare, a technique that will bother many blacks, and some whites, who will claim that Shakespeare is superfluous to an understanding of Malcolm...
Directed by Elias J. Corey, professor of Chemistry and chairman of the Chemistry department, the group has synthesized five members of a class of about 15 hormones known as prostaglandins. A detailed report of the research appeared in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society...