Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June 1, she is indeed mistaken. If she believes that by wearing burlap, communing with nature and refusing money, she can maintain an "ethnic" image, it is only to those pseudo-intellectual "preppies" and college "folkniks" that she appeals. To those who know something about folk music, publicizing oneself with the "hair to the navel, dirt in the toes" effect is the grossest form of commercialism...
Because of the town-gown situation, when capture becomes inevitable in the midst of a riot it is better to throw oneself into the hands of a University policeman rather than end up under arrest by a member of the regular Cambridge force. University cops are more soft-hearted, and the publicity attendant on a night spent in the Cambridge jail tends to complicate many an otherwise minor offense...
...with food"). She spoke to Carpenter on the phone just before liftoff, then took her children to the beach to watch the shoot. She said no prayers. "I feel the same way as Scott," she explained, referring to Carpenter's conviction that it is presumptuous to pray for oneself. After blastoff, she turned to watch the rest on television. She later admitted that she felt concerned only when first reports showed that radar contact had been lost with the space capsule after reentry. Beyond that, she had no worries: "I've been thoroughly checked...
...terms on which the Negro states his aspirations preclude Negro solidarity. Negro spokesmen and Negro publications talk of acceptance, obliterating the distinctions between oneself and other men, being treated like a man and not a Negro. James Wilson has pointed out in Negro Politics how Negro society in the North is shaped toward reliance on white opinion and white pressure groups. And Gunnar Myrdal has concluded that the Negro problem in America is a white problem; that, for better or worse, the Negro's advancement depends on the values and attitudes of white society, since the Negro shares them completely...
...crisis, they emerge as a family that tells us that people are about much more accurately--and of course, movingly--than any social scientist can hope to, if he wishes to remain a professional. The terrifying reality of The Children Sanchez lies in the essential identity these people and oneself; like occasional other human documents, it strikes a chord deep inside one, a chord that sounds even through any academic fiddling one performs in order to keep control...