Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broader aspects of civil rights. While the black community is far from silent, its leaders have sounded comparatively subdued in the face of growing white indifference or hostility. Yet this relative calm exists on the surface only; it is largely an illusion. Blacks are asserting a new sense of pride, self-reliance-and impatience. Economically, they have made considerable progress. But this progress is most impressive in comparison with the blacks' past condition, not in comparison with white achievements. The black sense of inequality is, if anything, growing. Says the Ford Foundation's Roger Wilkins: "Racism...
...blacks' new aggressive assertion of their separate identity helps to strengthen white segregationists, who are only too happy to keep them separate. Some whites see this new mood as racism in reverse. But to the extent that it celebrates black culture and nourishes black pride, it is a positive, important, undoubtedly permanent phenomenon. To the extent that black separatism represents a retreat in hate from U.S. society, it may be only a temporary phase; the hope is that, once blacks have gained necessary strength and confidence, they will turn back outward toward white America and deal with...
...1960s began, Californians regarded their vast university with particular pride. U.C. campuses were strung like jewels throughout Eden-on-the-Pacific. U.C. faculties rivaled those of Harvard or Stanford; the halls and labs teemed with past and future Nobel laureates-and tuition was free. Many educators regarded U.C. as the world's best public multiversity...
Harvard should also realize the power that it-with other universities-has to improve the utilities' records. Middle South points out that many other universities own blocks of its stock; and company spokesmen do not conceal their pride that The Treasurer of Harvard University sits on their board. The combination of these fiscal and intangible bargaining tools should be enough to lift Middle South at least to a more respectable position among the utilities...
...menial. Turnover of workers runs high in the Post Office, with disastrous effects upon efficiency, because few Americans will accept jobs that require work at night or on weekends. Some restaurateurs are hiring the mentally retarded because they are the only people willing to try?and even take some pride in?mopping floors and washing dishes. Hospitals often recruit the physically handicapped for service jobs ?handling bedpans, doing kitchen and laundry work?that no one else will stick with...