Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College. I feel the beginnings of a life style kicking inside me, but I don't feel I've done much living I've rejected a lot--institutions and customs I used to take for granted--but I haven't accepted much in their stead. I graduate from Harvard knowing, or thinking I know, mostly what I don't want...
Nationwide, our separate niches are so much further apart, so much more mutually exclusive than at Harvard, that Harvard almost blurs into unity. What do I know of rural midwestern 20-year-olds? Of sons of established Mississippi landowners? Of black high school dropouts in urban ghettoes? Even of sons of lower middle class workers? I know virtually nothing of them. Most times I have nothing to do with them. But we share a crisis...
...better or for worse--to a two-year active duty obligation. Without being grossly imprudent personal managers, we cannot afford to take six months out of the two years--25 per cent of the ROTC graduates' productive time in service--to teach him the military skills which he must know in order to be an effective officer. With a three or four year active duty obligation to work with, our sister services can afford to teach their "officers" what is required to be an officer after they come on active duty...
...about than making anti-Semitism a priority. In Ocean Hill-Brownsville, people who basically were committed to educating children suddenly now are being charged with antiSemitism. It takes things all out of context. I keep asking myself why it's so repugnant when it becomes black antiSemitism. We know that other groups practice anti-Semitism much more subtly. If every black man in America were an anti-Semite, it would have no real impact on our society as it presently stands...
...which is mighty good for somebody who recalls that he spent most of his early life "lookin' at the north end of a southbound mule. I always thought the world was made up of countrysides and cows and horses and pigs and chickens until I left home, you know...