Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since you became a special assistant to the commissioner of baseball almost two years ago, major league teams have hired 21 managers or general managers. Only one, Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles, is black. Has all the soul- searching following Al Campanis' remarks led merely to more empty rhetoric...
...Well, the '60s was a time when it appeared that newly integrated sports was going to be extremely rewarding to blacks. As a black athlete, you had a special calling, and nothing else was on par with that. Not intellectual development, not personal development, nothing else. So teachers and parents winked at academic deficiencies and a lack of discipline in the classroom because the young man was on the basketball team or the football team. There was this strong notion that sports had the capability as an institution of raising the entire race. That's a hoax, the greatest hoax...
...taking a new name is a quintessential American act, a supreme gesture of self-creation in the land where Norma Jean Baker became Marilyn Monroe, homosexuals became gays, and Esso became Exxon. But for many blacks, the choice of a word by which others will know them has a special significance. During their centuries of bondage, slaves had names that were often chosen by their masters. Booker T. Washington wrote in his autobiography Up from Slavery that there was one point on which former slaves were generally agreed: "that they must change their names." This process of shucking...
Departments should be allowed to present special cases of qualified minority or women scholars who do not fill specifically open slots to the dean for hiring authorization...
...special meeting called by Mather House Master Jeffrey G. Williamson, residents filled the dining hall in what was described as a heated debate with students objecting both to the characterization of Mather as intolerant and the manner and timing of Defeat Homophobia's protest...