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UNQUESTIONABLY, there is a kernel of truth to the University's fears. At the University of Pennsylvania, for example, over 100 Blacks all live together in one Black house, arguably hindering interracial contact. But a few Freshman Week activities, or a little special attention to the unique obstacles that affect minorities here, would hardly mean militant separatism...
...pressed to find a public school where Ralph Waldo Emerson hasn't been replaced by tales of streetwise punks" [May 31]. Many of my students are streetwise, but also enjoy Emerson. His philosophy is applicable to the young person today who understands that with our economic turmoil "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...
...this book has a disappointing aspect, it is the rather scanty treatment of Martin Buber, the towering religious humanist or humanistic religious. Somewhere in Buber, it would seem, lurks the kernel of the new understanding of self, and the relationship of man to Almighty. We are not powerless, victimized by an existential fate, doomed to fraudulent, terrorized lives. We can (not shall) overcome...
Concluded Columbia Professor Seymour Melman in a report on the subject: "Cause and effect links the military economy to inflation and unemployment." The kernel of a thesis put forth by Professor Lloyd Dumas of the University of Texas is that "people who do military-related work and the firms they work for receive a flow of money that is not balanced by a production of goods and services that can be used to absorb that money...
...like turning up in the middle of some black looneytune where the Duck had all the lines," Herr writes; even he found himself caught up in the chaos, unable to separate himself from the action. "It was that joke at the deepest part of the blackest kernel of fear, and you could die laughing...