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Curle remains convinced, however, that education can provide answers to the problems of rising expectation. He will be on sabbatical next semester and hopes to use the time to straighten out his thoughts on how schooling can prepare black children, particularly in the States, for the rude awakening graduation provides. In April, Merril Jackson of Michigan State University's Center for Conflict Resolution is coming to Harvard to work with Curle...
Karl Marx was very rude about people like William Morris, the poet, artist-craftsman and social revolutionary. "Christian Socialism," he wrote in the Communist Manifesto, "is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat...
Through that distant and serene period, Churchill moved with the insistent and often rude force of a man in a hurry to reach command. "We are all worms," he told Violet Asquith, the Prime Minister's daughter, "but I do believe I am a glowworm...
...said he has no objection to students talking to serving-ladies whom they have known for three or four years buth sympathizes with a student who would hate to be rude and walk away...
...mission officials were offended by the "rude, crude manner" in which the protest was lodged: the New York Times front-paged it before President Johnson even saw the letter. They pointed out that 26 other voluntary agencies are serving in Viet Nam without protest, and that less than a third of the I.V.S. personnel signed the letter to President Johnson. I.V.S. Director Arthur Z. Gardiner accepted Luce's resignation with regret, then made plans to head for Saigon to select replacements for the foursome from the staff in the field...