Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This was the meaning of Dr. King--to turn a nation in on itself, to confront its own conscience. As one writer has put it, Dr. King was successful because when Southerners "smote him--as they inevtiably must--they hurt them selves...In the end, it was the power of their own idealized vision of themselves as Christians, transcended into Blackness, personified in King and him, a seemingly loving and non-violent host, that shook them to the roots of self." But we are rarely shaken to such depths today...
...acknowledge that the first incident was clearly offensive, we are likely to question the dean's concern about the latter event. By linking the two, is she not trivializing racism? After all, no offense was intended by referring to the 1950s as a "care-free" era. Must we always mention Jim Crow when we refer to a pre-1970 decade...
...symbol can only do so much. Too often, it convinces those who cling to them more than those who must accept them. And if there will never be another 1950s night at a Harvard dining hall, students will no doubt attribute it to the complaints of a bunch of Black students. Not to a bunch of white people who offended them...
Some Board members are beginning to push for the Overseers to take on a more active role in University governance. Although the Board of Overseers officially must approve the Corporation's policies for them to be enacted, it has usually been reluctant to take an independent stand...
Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair Patricia MacGovern (D-Lawrence), whose committee must approve the budget, has requested that Dukakis rescind his proposal and overhaul the plan before resubmitting...