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Since 1969, Harvard protests have not reached this level again, in either numbers of intensity. Neither, however, has Harvard returned to the placid era of the early 1950s. For example, when the Vietnam War ended, students refocused on a cause of even greater longstanding--full racial equality. Initially attention was directed at the University's internal policies. Student protest helped in establishing the Afro-American Studies Department one of the standards of the '69 strikers...
FROM THE TOP FLOOR of the Parker House one evening last month, Boston looked placid. Seen from that angle, the just budding green of the Common was painted brightly against the John Hancock lower. If you'd looked out over downtown that night, you might well have thought yourself in a windy city of brotherly love...
Besides the inaccurate characterization of all Asians as well-paid techicians, the piece also makes a number of unsupported--and unsupportable--conclusions about the "Asian character." Asians are described as possessing "placid temperaments," capable of only "narrow" thinking, tending to "stick together on campus." In general, a Georgetown professor concludes that Asians will "work you into the ground...
Nearly all of these statements are presented as incontrovertible fact, yet when closely examined, virtually none of the arguments advanced in the article can survive close scrutiny. The characterization of Asian-Americans as placid, for example, is based on studies of Chinese and Japanese babies, not Asian-American babies. The gang wars so prevalent in American Chinatowns give regrettable evidence to the fact that placidity is not intrinsic to the character of all Asian-Americans...
...would assert that White's life has been traumatic. But White's mental and physical vulnerability to such attacks has caused most of the troubles of his adult life. These troubles stand out in a story one naively imagines as placid. Indeed, it is the achievement of biographer Elledge that he conveys not only what White has done or meant but what it must be like to be White. He does not simply transcribe the hard facts of accomplishment, tempting though this might be when the subject is alive, he also captures the fluctuating essence of White's predominantly genial...