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...discussion with Mr. Butter, I stressed two factory: 1) that the social paradigm of black life was really a quest for a familiar social existence which I understood but regretted since in my view racial integration produces a richer and more varied life. In particular, such integration contains the possibility that in most situations one can forget that one is black or white. 2) The core of my argument was that black students had to strike a balance between three elements: a sense of respect for their racial and cultural heritage, broad participation in the social, cultural, and intellectual mainstream...
...make bad law. Watergate and My Lai are two of the hardest cases in recent American history, for each is freighted with immense emotional and symbolic meaning. Each involves trial of subordinates while the crime may lie higher up the chain of command. The My Lai massacre became a paradigm of everything that went wrong with the American venture in Viet Nam. Enemies of U.S. policy seized upon the event to dramatize their case. The Army, anxious to protect its name, sought to isolate the tragedy and its participants as untypical of military performance. Yet beneath the cloud of symbolism...
Ethical Teacher. In treating landscape as a paradigm of human fate and mood, Friedrich became one of the few major painters in the German romantic movement. The issue then, as posed by the philosopher Friedrich Schlegel, was straightforward: "Do not animals, stones, plants, stars and breezes also belong with mankind, which is merely a central meeting point of countless varied threads? Can mankind be understood divorced from nature, and is it so very different from other manifestations of nature?" This, the key question of the romantic sensibility then as of ecology now, was Friedrich's obsession. He pursued...
...moment, and all Europe was armed for the struggle that would follow his death, since, in addition to his other troubles, he was importent and could leave no heirs. In his bizarre court, where obeisance is paid to a sad stick-figure of a man, Barnes finds a paradigm of all relationships based on power and authority. Carlos himself valiantly manages to hold on to the shreds of his sanity, expecially in the speeches he delivers in the interludes of calm clarity that follow his fits; the mental cripples around him are far more warped by power...
...that they tend to exaggerate violence, and that the mere presence of TV cameras and crowds of reporters can detonate a volatile situation. Boston faced precisely such a hazard this month when public schools opened under a controversial integration plan involving busing. Local news coverage, however, was an uncommon paradigm of restraint...