Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much, also, for Harvard-wide bonds. In exams, and only in exams, we share a common interest in Harvard; Harvard does roughly the same thing to all of us, and we all cope with what Harvard is doing to us in pretty much the same way. The spirit of football fails to reach a great many students; so does the spirit of confrontation politics. It is only in the exam period that all Harvard students are dealing with the Harvard, and for each, it is the worst of Harvard because it is a crisis; when the crisis subsides we make...
...What do I know of rural midwestern 20-year-olds? Of sons of established Mississippi landowners? Of black high school dropouts in urban ghettoes? Even of sons of lower middle class workers? I know virtually nothing of them. Most times I have nothing to do with them. But we share a crisis...
...faced by Harvard seniors, and by high school seniors in a ghetto who can't go to college. Do I fight for my country? Do I work for it? Do I ignore it? Do I try to change it? Do I work against it? Do I proceed alone, or share with others, and how many others? Will ever stop feeling so leaden-lazy; will ever find something I want...
...Fein, "and they wouldn't know a social-action council if they fell over it. But they know the Talmud and the Bible." Using these texts, the judges improvised a solution that satisfied both sides. The landlord agreed to make overdue repairs, and his tenants promised to do their share in good housekeeping. So far the bargain has been kept...
...peoples," says Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland's Fairmount Temple, "should be able to feel empathy with Negro frustration and anger. When we look deep into our Jewish conscience, we admit that it is right that the Negro should expect more of us." Lelyveld has given his share; as a civil rights worker in Hattiesburg, Miss., five years ago he was attacked and severely beaten by two white men. Says Charles E. Silberman, author of Crisis in Black and White: "Justice is an act, not a state of mind. Our obligation in no way hinges on the merits...