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...obverse of this revolutionary perspective is a conservative world-view which underlies black nationalist ideology. Slavery, repression, and defeat have driven the black nationalist into a kind of "apartheid," which dangerously tends toward counter-revolutionary racial exclusiveness. As Tom Nairn, following E.P. Thomson, so judiciously observed of the British working class: "Such 'apartheid' was the necessary pre-condition of the conservative class-hierarchy. It was only the systematic fostering of this sense of irremediable and inherited difference, of social exclusion felt (even if not intellectually assented to) as a fact of nature. This was one of the most powerful weapons...
...this basically serious exercise in parody, Maclnnes adopts the young narrator-adventurer common to 18th century fiction. He is one Alexander Nairn, a pushy Scots lad but a bit of a Presbyterian prig. Alexander ships from Liverpool on a slaver carrying blacks from Africa on the final leg of their journey to West Indian sugar plantations...
...explanation for Prescott's rigorous "wilderness course," declares the school's president, Ronald C. Nairn, is that "man is a part of nature. Millions of years of his evolutionary history are rooted in life as a hunter, a nomad, an adventurer. Deep facets of personality and emotional needs are tied to his past Urban industrial society increasingly fails to meet these needs." gritty native spirt is only one part Prescott's unique educational program. The college has junked traditional academic departments and installed a system of wide-ranging integrated courses that bridge the gap between humanities...
...filling its classes. A chance to teach in small, informal seminars and high salaries ($14, average) have helped attract a strong and adventurous faculty. Support from Arizona citizens has been building as well; last year, Barry Goldwater donated his personal library to the college At Prescott, says President Nairn, who served as a New Zealand fighter pilot during World War II and holds a Ph. D. from Yale, "we are taking our past concepts of learning and giving them a new focus by which we can come close to the objective of that ancient Chinese aphorism: To have roots...
...Prexy Ronald Nairn of Prescott College [Sept. 23] acknowledges the enduring mystery of his own ignorance when he justifies the absence of education courses with the non sequitur, "We would love to teach education if we could find anyone who knew anything about it." Such Neanderthal thinking will earn him guffaws only from those mossbacks who believe that there have been no breakthroughs since the time of the Greeks. He might begin his search at Harvard, whose classical curriculum has not suffered from the fact that doctorates in education are offered there. All disciplines have advanced in recent years...