Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden transition from anonymity to notoriety; vindicated matrons having just reasserted the triumph of their risen Lord through a successful church bakery sale; or, inevitably, the distraught but delighted graduating high school class. All smiling, self-conscious, vacuous. Or are they really vacuous? Just what am I allowed to see behind the conventional stance and posture with which they protect themselves from the photographer...
...propose that a directory be prepared of Boston-area faculty members who have special knowledge and expertise concerning Afro-American affairs who are willing to conduct independent studies (arranged through Harvard fields of concentration) with Harvard students. The Committee to be charged with encouraging instruction in Afro-American Studies (see Section II) should be given responsibility for discovering and disseminating such information...
...Committee's recommendation for recruitment of a greater number of black graduate students (see Section IV) will, when implemented, presumably add to the number of blacks serving as advisors, tutors, and the like. A program of fellowships and active recruitment will bring more blacks to the Harvard graduate school, and these students will in time be available as teaching fellows, House tutors, and for such positions as Senior Tutor. However, pending this development, it is recommended that the Committee on Houses and the Freshman Dean be advised again that the black undergraduates feel that blacks are woefully underrepresented as tutors...
...Boston," he continues, "you see Irish power. In Newark, you see Italian power. Cities are a series of ethnic powers. I see the black community fitting into that equation." Nor does he believe it will take blacks very long to build up ethnic power though they have been in North America for over three centuries. "In one way, this is the first black generation in America. Or, I mean, it is the first black generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation of urban dwellers. It is the first generation in which black awareness and pride could develop because...
...wonderful to think about all of these things really belonging to one strange lonely man, drawings, clocks, bronzes and all. This show certainly makes one think of Winthrop, and look at the collection with a feeling for him, in his house, looking at them. I can just see him in front of one of his lovely clocks, trying to decide whether to set the alarm at "air," "dance," "gavotte," or "song...