Word: mandelas
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...semester's fellowship at the Institute of Politics. I have been pleasantly reminded of how central to one's identity a great, good place like this can remain even through long absences. I delighted in seeing the strength and depth of my alma mater reflected in Nelson Mandela's gracious acceptance of the honor Harvard had bestowed upon him. Perhaps like many others in Tercentenary Theater that day, I found myself peering through the prism of my identification with Harvard to consider my other identities--as a politician, as a Democrat, but most of all, as a provincial...
...twentieth century was the judge of that debate, clearly it has rendered its judgment in favor of Croly. Or has it? Why, then, at the end of the century, is there such an incessantly growing literature on "the end of the age of the nation-state"? Why would Nelson Mandela pay tribute to Harvard, not as an American institution, but as one which "sees the world as its stage"? Why would he refer to himself more often as an African than as a South African? And why (on an infinitely more humble scale) would someone who had every opportunity...
...human urge to self-determination which bound Mandela so strongly to his Harvard audience. It is the imperative of self-determination which gives us no choice now but to become global citizens. But as citizens of this vulnerable planet, we must also cultivate an effective form of citizenship and loyalty toward those real and significant places which sustain and shape our being...
...astonished by Melissa Crocker's "Editorial Notebook" (Sept. 21) on the honorary degree ceremony arranged for Nelson Mandela. One has to wonder at the impulse which drove her to pen such a peevish piece. I would with no hesitation place Mandela among the most extraordinary figures of the twentieth century...
...Nelson Mandela deserved every honor and every "special arrangement" Harvard needed to muster for him. LEE A. DANIELS '71 Brooklyn...