Word: mindset
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...they choose to live in a neighborhood torn by violence that itself makes no sense to him. The irony is that the violence stems from the "domestic colonialism" that Britain imposes on her Blacks, and that Rafi, despite his Indianness, is so fully assimilated into the old British mindset that he cannot see this...
...course, the marketing consultants are going wild. They have the rare opportunity to completely distort the public mindset. In the old days, condoms had rough, manly names, officially and on the street. Guys called them "safes," "johns," and "scumbags;" their trademarks implied conquest and domination: "Ramses" and "Trojans." Some of the later brands got a little wimpy. "Excita," one was called--a name as appropriate for a federal tax form as for a condom...
...N.O.P.E. protest represents that stand of defeatism and resignation which we all must fight against. Our institutions, in this case Harvard Law School, are partly responsible for this mindset. At times they seem so uncaring they can make us feel incapable of changing them. Yet institutions rarely invite change; they must be made to change...
...FIRST WORD in the feminist Women of the Ivy League magazine is "Playboy," and that says a lot about the mentality of its editors. Locked in a mindset that makes every encounter with men a confrontation, they exist only in opposition; by their own admission, their Women of the Ivy League is nothing but a pleading reaction to Playboy...
...celebrate Harvard and each other, [I] should have objected to it, and tried to stop it. I tell you that your attitude argues for killing any celebration at all. There might be no house dinners, no Bandstand, no campus-wide cookout. There might be no dance. This is the mindset your harsh and accusing attitude creates. If you have ever wondered why more people do not give of themselves to make Harvard a better place, then you should look at your very visible efforts to vilify such people...