Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allowing Harvard students to be Overseers would require an act of the Massachusetts legislature, and both Richardson and White say they oppose such an action. Richardson said that Harvard students already have adequate channels for expressing their views--through the Faculty petitions, various representatives, and editorials. "The real question is whether ideas and views are heard," he said. "My impression is that Harvard has shown considerable sensitivity...
...between, there is a middle state. But it is not a comfortable pose of objectivity, or even a neutral state of apathy. Instead, it is the agonizing limbo of double consciousness, or realizing that both Southern Myths are real. In itself, the recognition of both sides is not surprising. What is shattering is finding that one Southern town, one store, or one drawling person can fit into both schemes, and that by artful manipulation, an observer can extract the puree of both dreams from any given situation...
When I arrived in Alabama, however, I was surprised. It looked just like the real world. Montgomery and Birmingham could have been in any other state; and even the legendary Selma looked like any Midwest commercial town. There were no border guards to weed out Northerners who had come to meddle; thick-necked police didn't roam the strets with electric cattle prods; Negroes walked on the sidewalks and not in the gutters. There were more Wallace posters, of course, and the bookstands seemed notably short of books like Black Power. But if Alabama wasn't Cambridge or Haight-Ashbury...
Although much more attention was paid in the press to Fortas's nomination than to Thornberry's, the real change in the decisions which a Fortas court could be expected to hand down would have depended ultimately on the way Thornberry voted...
Mayor White responded to these demands by forming a six-man committee to investigate reforms in the Boston Schools. But for a number of reasons the device seems unlikely either to stimulate real reform or to convince blacks that their grievances are getting adequate hearing...