Word: respectibility
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Bell also says that blacks have greater difficulty in gaining the confidence of students. He says that the white professor earns the respect of his class simply because he is white; the black teacher, on the other hand, must win this respect every time he greets a new group of students...
...privilege among adults remains radically unequal, and so long as some children are raised by adults who have "all the advantages," while others are raised by adults who have all the disadvantages, children will inevitably turn out unequal. This may be partly because parents with time, money and the respect of their fellows can do a better job raising their children than parents who lack these things. But children raised in different circumstances will also require different hopes, expectations, and compulsions...So long as we cling to the family system, efforts to increase the rate of social mobility are likely...
Jencks's arguments do not follow the logical one-two pattern he feels they do. While he may believe that a classless society must also be a family-less society, he cannot substantiate that view. If it is true that parents with "different circumstances," with "time, money and the respect of their fellows" will produce children more advantaged than certain other parents, why not deal directly with that problem and equalize the "circumstances?" Why not provide the time and money (the respect will follow) for all parents? If it is true that altered social status also alters patterns of class...
Lord Rochester's Monkey is the biography of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680). The book was finished in 1934, but Greene's publisher rejected his manuscript and he just forgot about it. With all due respect for Greene's talents as a novelist, he should have left the manuscript in the library at Texas University, or better yet, he should have burned it. It's an interesting biography, but only insofar as Rochester is an intriguing character; Greene's style and his organizing abilities aren't capable of sustaining a work that brings together Rochester's life...
Greene compares Rochester's poetry to that of Donne, and in at least one respect he's right: "Both poets were driven by the circumstances of their lives to be satirists." But Lord Rochester's Monkey goes too far in ascribing to Rochester (based mostly on his death-bed return to Christianity) a metaphysical resonance that just isn't there. Rochester was a bold and cunning contriver and his redemption for enjoying all the pleasures of a decadent age lies in his contempt for that age, expressed in poems like "Upon Nothing," and "A Satyr Against...