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...with students who react against the impersonal university by turning to social action but warns that "a commitment to self" must precede a "commitment that takes them to the barricades." What students need are more free hours "for contemplation, for simply learning how to spend a quiet evening with oneself...
...further plot complications, FranÇois-Francis starts hopping through the titled beds of France and he becomes the erotic talk of Paris. But his mad snobbery causes him to lose the rest of his money and his marbles. By the time the truth is out that dishonesty with oneself is not the best policy, he is past recognizing...
...black pride, in addition to black power. The nationalist is a man who feels that it is time for the Negro to stop wondering if he's going to accept the white. He is a man reacting to what Richard Wright called a "frog perspective," a tendency to define oneself by white man's standards: "If you ask an American Negro to describe his situation, he will almost always tell you, 'We are rising.' Against what or whom is he measuring his 'rising'? It is beyond doubt his hostile white neighbor...
...pressed, will face up to and admit their own missteps. There are no accurate measurements, but this is suggested by many factors, from opinion surveys to the behavior of defendants in court. It is a hopeful sign, because perhaps the worst part of dishonesty is being dishonest with oneself. As Groucho Marx said: "There's one way to find out if a man is honest-ask him. If he says yes, you know he's crooked." Americans on the whole do not seem to overrate their dishonesty-or their honesty, either...
...that has befallen 1,900,000 women in the 40-to-60 age group. "I had to go on because of my children, and I had to because of my own sense of survival. Bogey's belief always was that if one mourns too long, one mourns for oneself rather than for the one who's gone. Life is for the living. It's all a cliché, but it's true...