Word: reede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winners are: Robert L. Adler, Government; Deborah A. Batts, Government; Anthony W. Ganz, Social Relations; Jerald R. Gerst, Social Studies; Stephen H. Kaplan, Government; John E. Larouche, Government; Richard J. Lavine, Economics; John D. Reed, History and Literature; Anne H. Rightor, Government; Michael S. Schooler, Social Relations; Ronald Simon, Government; Stephen V. Whitman, Government...
...more than the condescension of white professionals or their attempts to impose solutions on Roxbury's problems. The anger is not mindless. It stems from a fervent conviction that white, suburban intellectuals can't change the ghetto if they haven't lived it. "The community people," says James R. Reed, Executive Secretary of the New School for Children, almost pleading, "would be the last people in the world to tell the professionals 'we don't need you.' The problem starts when he ignores the kind of competence we have...they have got to believe--an acceptance on a gut level...
...talking and hiring isn't enough. There have got to be results. Ed School surveyors aren't welcome now along Tremont Street. There has been too much research and too little action. "The community is sick and tired of talking," says Reed angrily. "Harvard gets the ideas and writes them up in jargon for grants from Washington, and they're hiring people, and they have their own thing. The black people who had the ideas are still being beat down...
Tens of other self-help groups followed, but the community movement required more than drive and managerial skill: it needed educational expertise. "Before 1965, the ghetto didn't know where to look for guidance," says James R. Reed, Executive Secretary of the New School for Children, and a student at the Ed School. "They naturally began to look at the sources of education. Harvard gained its prominence by the fact of its size...
Having demolished his desk, the rebellious adman this time really does cut loose. Determined to go straight, Andrew (Oliver Reed) leaves the business, the boss, and the ball-and-chain. To further prove his good intentions, he even jettisons his two mistresses. Soon he gets an honest job at the Gadfly, a drab little literary magazine, where his principal duty is rejecting manuscripts. The rest of the time he accepts the adoration of a puddingy secretary (Carol White) who finds him as irresistible as he obviously finds himself...