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...Whenever students are alive and alert and sober, and sane and serious, you drive America forward. Whenever students turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short-term pleasures without long-term failures, it slows down the machinery, slows down the quest for justice and for peace...
Black students now mesmerized by Black fraternities should turn to this much more serious enterprise--an enterprise that will enable them, in Rev. Jackson's words, to become "alive and alert and sober...sane and serious." This and similar activity focussed not on Black students' bourgeois pretensions but on crises smothering the Black poor will ensure that Black students will not "turn inward and become selfish, become hedonistic, accept short term pleasures without long-term failures..." Connecting themselves with an ethnic uplift strategy focussed on the Black poor will prepare Black students "to drive America forward...
...devil make her do it? Who cares? Don't try to read too much into every frog, dog and December Bee motif in Woman in Mind. It's just fun to watch. Even sober...
...problems. Belushi, the brilliant, volatile star of Saturday Night Live and films like National Lampoon's Animal House, has become a posthumous icon, a symbol of the raucous counterculture comedy that Saturday Night Live spearheaded in the '70s. But cinematic tales of drug abuse (Less Than Zero, Clean and Sober) have fizzled at the box office, and Wired is an especially downbeat example. What's more, with Belushi's work so vividly remembered (and still widely available in TV reruns), a movie re-creation might seem morbidly gratuitous, even by Hollywood standards...
...name is Mikhail, and I'm an alcoholic," says the next speaker. Sober only a short while, Mikhail, 41, stayed home from work on his last birthday out of fear that his co-workers would insist on celebrating the event with a bottle. "I don't want to talk about my drinking tonight. I just want to thank you for the chance to express myself honestly. Until I came here, I had never done that before...