Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...segregated) and most of the 40 blacks on campus. One student said, "In every dining hall there is a black table. Most prep school Negroes are white blacks who are mostly middle class. There's this guy in our admissions office who's really good and gets a lot of militants...
...other side the white intellectuals who often put the blame on the police rather than on more fundamental things that are responsible for the police action--action which is often, in the existential moment, absolutely necessary. I would aim criticism at people of far greater influence, people with a lot more power and social respect and status, a lot more money and--ironically--a lot more willingness to be flexible...
...think a lot of these doubts are shared by people in the New Left, shared by a lot of students, but I don't think these people always act on their doubts, and I'm afraid I want them to act on their doubts as well as on their political princlples. I want them to demonstrate some of the tension that goes between humility and arrogance, some of the tension that goes between idealism and pragmatism, some of the tension that goes between pride and self-doubt and a kind of inner agony...
...know some of these children well enough so that they could visit us in our home, and now, of course, I have found that these children love my sports car, and that these children don't begrudge me it, and that these children don't begrudge me a lot of the things that I begrudge myself...
...book is not the usual children's book, and I'm afraid it isn't going to be overwhelmingly received by a lot of conventionally minded guardians of children's literature...