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...real liberal attitude will change then only when the Negro commands respect, when he is able to assert a manifest equality. But precisely by treating the Negro, at least superficially, as an equal, the white liberal helps break the vicious circle, which depends upon perceived social and economic inequality. Colored pride and white respect must somehow be enkindled, and if the white community cannot do it, some think the Black Muslims can. Only when "niggerness" is itself extinct will the liberal conscience lose its usefulness, and that millenium does not seem at hand. Nicholas Fels...
Year after year the College administration tried to purchase the building, and thereby manifest Radcliffe's destiny on the Quad. But the landlords were not so ready to give up what was a fairly profitable commercial venture. The building's very location on the dormitory quadrangle ideally suited the needs of young couples looking for baby sitters. And, according to legend at least, apartments in strategic locations with respect to Radcliffe were earmarked for lecherous old bachelors willing to pay high prices for a choice view...
...having nothing, or very little, to do with earning capacity. Similarly, to sell a stock is an act of contempt." This is why widows are often reluctant to sell stock that their husbands purchased. "It is not that they develop a sudden respect for his judgment-a respect never manifest in his lifetime. It is that they liked him in spite of his poor judgment, and are reluctant to break the personal ties...
...rule's demise. The prediction, of course, was wrong; but the basis on which it was offered could not have been more correct. The weaknesses in the present Cum Laude in General Studies policy are obvious to most of the Faculty. If this majority did not choose to manifest its opposition in January, its inaction should be attributed to gracious compliance with a hastily called truce, rather than to doubts about political strength...
...since they are, something will have to be done to get Britain into the Common Market soon, if only to salvage some shred of Harold Macmillan's prestige. Macmillan has been badly damaged by the manifest failure of his two major foreign policies: the special relationship with the United States, which Kennedy killed in Nassau, and entry into the Common Market, which De Gaulle now threatens to kill in Brussels. If De Gaulle carries out his threat, Macmillan is done, and when Labour comes in after the next General Election, Britain and Europe will go their own ways...