Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trust that what I have said thus far illuminates some aspects of the intellectual validity of the Black Experience. I have purposely refrained from defining specifically what I mean by intellectual validity of the Black Experience: It happens that I hate definitions! I have also consciously refrained from attempting to deduce a conception of the intellectual validity of the Black Experience by emphasizing the oppressive aspects of this Experience as exemplified preeminently in the past three centuries of black-white relationships. I am, I think, reasonably knowledgeable about the bloody and dehumanizing record of this oppressive relationship. But I consider...
GRADUATE STUDENTS traditionally have been cautious in their political activities. They will not risk alienating faculty members whose recommendations could mean the difference between success and failure as a political scientist...
...whiz, that kind of carryin' on has been all the rage from these Kansas plains clear out West to Hollywood and beyond. You mean it's just startin' to catch on back East...
...Negro Student Afro-American Society-seemed far more interested in a bloody confrontation with the ad ministration than in any meaningful negotiations. They demanded a complete surrender on all points at issue, including amnesty for all participants in the rebellion. Kirk refused, on the ground that this would mean a complete abdication of all disciplinary authority...
...morality. Interpreting the rule change, Methodist officials insisted that it did not really relax discipline, instead placed the burden of responsibility for living a moral life on the self-discipline of the minister himself rather than on a code of laws. "It is time we took seriously what we mean by a 'moral witness,' " said the Rev. Harold Bosley of Manhattan's Christ Church. "You do not make a moral witness under the gun; you make it because you choose to make...