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...making these arguments, I am acutely aware of the contrary views expressed by those who strongly favor divestment. I respect their convictions, I hope that they will respect mine. It is never a pleasant task to disagree with others who care deeply about injustice. In the case of South Africa, the injustice is so monstrous that the heart aches for some opportunity to resist effectively. Nevertheless, such feelings cannot bring me to support a course of action that would force this University to deviate from its proper role, jeopardize its independence, and risk its resources in behalf of a dubious...
...pleasant surprise when Harvard's 'A' and 'B' doubles teams--playing together for the first time--scored championship victories...
...part of his MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant to help finance The Brother from Another Planet, a $350,000 satire about a black extraterrestrial who lands in Harlem. A white man shooting in Soultown with a cast that was 80% black could easily fall prey to presumption and condescension. The pleasant surprise of The Brother is how gracefully Sayles earns smiles and sympathy for his hero (Joe Morton) and his lank, loping comedy. In a rattling subway car, a cardsharp announces his next trick-"Wanna see me make all the white people disappear?"-as the subway doors open at the last...
...preparation for rain, I marched over to the post office on Massachusetts Avenue and, being the law-abiding sort, filled out my registration card. I had no moral objection to filling out the card, but the thought of what it might eventually get me into was hardly pleasant...
...years after he became a writer with his story about Bogart, Naipaul went to Venezuela to look up his first character. He leaves his Caracas hotel one morning to visit the old man in his village in the Orinoco delta. They have a pleasant lunch, but when Naipaul returns to Caracas he finds a telegram from Bogart, a note he had missed that morning, which asks him to cancel his visit. Maybe it should have been a signal to Naipaul that the thousands of air-miles and the hundreds of pages which have come between him and the room...