Word: owing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday afternoon, I had caught Hill and Charlie Sifford, the first black to play on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) tour, for an interview about racism on the tour and the heavy-handedness of the PGA bureaucracy. "All the black players out here owe everything to Charlie--he used to have to eat in the kitchen and change his shoes with the caddies," Hill had said. "But I've gotten to the point where I don't even bother to complain about all the shit out there anymore. Nothing ever gets changed. The PGA just does things the way they...
...would have long since had a ruling class in America, and these men would certainly have been peasants, not aristocrats. The self-made man is a phenomenon possible only in a free society. How pathetic it is that so many self-made men seem to forget the debt they owe to those institutions that make that freedom possible...
...despite the fact that, as Walzer puts it, "people generally understand what you mean when you say that Harvard is a male institution," the underlying assumption at the OWE is that its chief purpose is to disappear eventually. "It serves to give strength, unity and focus to the minority group of women in this community," Arthurs says. "Once women are, feel like less of a minority, there will be less of a need...
...meantime, Arthurs sees the OWE as fulfilling in a different way Radcliffe's time-honored function for women at Harvard: "Radcliffe's traditional role has been to provide women with a place at Harvard. That is still its role, but today it means more than giving women dorm space or access to classrooms...
...embodiment of Radcliffe, the Office of Women's Education could be the only part of Radcliffe College that would survive merger. No one, however, has a timetable either for merger or for the OWE's demise. "One of the ironies is that as Radcliffe becomes more vigorous, forcing it to disappear is more of a problem," Arthurs said last week...