Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says. "I think most Africans believe that, but I think it tells more about them than about the Americans. The African student finds it difficult to adjust to the intricacies of American life, and while he is adjusting, he is lonely and wants to be treated like a person...
Moll finds ASPAU so exciting "because practically every person we have here will count in the higher administration of an African nation." While noting that well over half of ASPAU scholars maintain grades in American institutions, Moll recounted the story of an African student who flunked out of a "not so competitive" Western university (he was one of only five per cent), returned home, and was immediately appointed his country's representative to the United Nations...
...took the part because it was challenging and because she admired the director. In turn, Antonioni taught her the basic lessons every film performer has to learn: how to respond to the camera as to another person in a room, how not to act but react. He wrote her a marvelous part. She was cast as a woman without qualities, an embodied enigma. The spectator knows only that she was an accomplice to a murder. Otherwise he knows nothing about her except what he chooses to imagine, and her job was to make the imagination seethe. She did it superbly...
...undeniably important, but there are certain absurdities involved in weighting publications (and often only publications that meet "scientific" journal standards) to the exclusion of any other factors. Teaching skill, of course, is also ruled out by this narrow criterion for appointment. It is unrealistic to expect that any one person could combine both unequalled research and a strong commitment to working with people in clinical situations...
About the only way for a Negro to get his name in the first few pages of most Alabama newspapers is to do bodily harm to a white person. The small number of other endeavors that make the papers are ordinarily consigned to what is known in the trade as the "nigger page" (a compositor for the Selma Times-Journal recently precipitated a demonstration by angry Negroes when he inadvertantly failed to remove a line of type reading "Nigger Page" from that section of the paper...