Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposals for community involvement come in sharp contrast to the innocuous pose of portions of the Wilson report. The dubious social morality of some of the companies Harvard has invested in--including the notorious Mississippi Power and Light--has long been a sore spot for both blacks and whites here. In combination with "discriminatory hiring and real estate policies," the report says that these investment practices make black students feel that "Harvard is uninterested in the 'morality' of its operations." The report's recommendation that Harvard use its fiscal might "to create an environment in which racial justice prevails...
...violence may never have seemed a plausible threat here, the committee members must have been aware of the subtler pressure they faced in determining Harvard's position. It is easy to forget Harvard's proverbial position as leader of the nation's educational circles. But in contrast to the light publicity given Yale's and Cornell's trailblazing efforts last year, innundative press coverage has followed the Rosovsky report...
...sake of desruction, or else we want some ill-defined revolution. Since it is true that revolution is not one interest or value among others, then those of us whom he would place in the fourth circle appear to outsiders to have no definite program of interests. In this light, our concern for the interests of others is merely a ruse for the furtherance of our own revolutionary ends. Ford, one suspects, views revolution pretty much as pure destruction, and therefore something to be resisted. I don't know what a revolution would look like in America...
...Call usually comes at about midnight, when the orange growers and their Mexican foremen finally stop hoping and realize they have to light the pots. The growers, of course, hate to call out the smudge crew; one good night of burning pots can cost many thousands of dollars for oil and labor. But when it comes down to a choice of letting the whole grove turn into sawdust-sacks or calling out the crews, the growers send out The Call...
Finally Shorty shows up and the fun begins. The first two hours of the smudging night are the best. After the foremen dump out the smudgers in their assigned groves, the kids get to light up the pots. Brandishing flaming diesel torches, and looking like cavemen on a nighttime Mammoth hunt, the smudgers run down the long rows of pots. They run in groups of two, the first lighting the oil in the belly of the pot and the second adjusting the huge flames that spout from the smokestacks...