Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poverty is a psychological process which destroys the young before they can live and the aged before they can die," says Yale Psychologist Ira Goldenberg. "It is a pattern of hopelessness and helplessness, a view of the world and oneself as static, limited and irredeemably expendable. Poverty, in short, is a condition of being in which one's past and future meet in the present ? and go no further...
...Pollard, 64, came up from Winston-Salem, N.C., to Harlem in search of a "good job." Today he lives just over the poverty line?$150 a month as a janitor keeps him a scant penny above the $1,710 poverty line for a single man in an urban area. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and lean in his baggy denim trousers, woolen work jacket and purple longshoreman's cap, he used to support a wife and five children. He and his wife were divorced a few years ago. "All that hard work, and I wind up a poor...
...will not be easy for whites to accept counsel or direction from blacks. But nothing short of that is likely to be successful. On the course toward genuine union with his black brother, the white's first step is perhaps the hardest of all. It is to acknowledge that he and not the Negro must change his attitude. Above all, he must accept his majority share of responsibility for the race problem. If the white is genuinely concerned about forming a useful coalition with the black, he will certainly have to drop his guard-and, beyond that, he will...
Smoldering Hostility. The seeds of the student revolt have long existed in France's archaic system of higher education. Overcrowded to a point that stifles learning, lamentably short of professors, and managed by a mammoth but mediocre bureaucracy that resists change. French universities annually flunk some 20% of their 550,000 students while another 50% give up and quit. Resentment against the system erupted in the rioting...
...cultural or racial bonds stand in the way. What is more, the African brokers in the slave trade--of whom there were tens of thousands--were not restrained by knowledge that perhaps 40 per cent of the human cargo in Middle Passage perished before reaching the Western Hemisphere. In short, I would suggest most firmly that the Black Experience is truly nothing more than a valiant of the Human Experience. Put another way and rather cynically, power is what power does...