Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boris Katz spoke briefly and emotionally to the gathering. "You have all helped us to be here today...I thank you...I love you all," he said...
...list was typical. Margaret Mead was a small woman, but she got around. She spoke volubly and carried a forked stick. Her studies-and the two dozen books that resulted from them-revolutionized her chosen field of anthropology. Long before her colleagues recognized the validity of her approach, she studied the biological, psychological and sociological forces that shaped personality in primitive cultures, then used her findings to explain how individuals learn adult roles in modern societies. Her application of this approach to other areas and her willingness to speak out on almost any subject made her ideas-and her dumpy...
...Peoples of the Pacific at the American Museum of Natural History, where she was curator of ethnology. She brought a keen, insatiably curious mind and anthropological insights to bear on the problems of her own society and, with a confidence that made it clear she would brook no arguments, spoke out frequently on social and political problems that many of her colleagues preferred to avoid...
Some facts: Four women and one man composed the panel, with a male moderator. The Crimson article was written by a male. Each panelist spoke for the same amount of time. Yet the only panelist named was the only man. The only panelist quoted, four times, was the only man. His remarks were given four paragraphs, whereas the four women were relegated to a single paragraph--un-named, un-described, and un-defined by the article. The only other person mentioned in the article by name was the male moderator...
...blacks, based on criteria like property or education--in a country where blacks cannot own the land their houses stand on, and where the black schools are hardly worth attending. (I wonder whether Harvard would ever grant an honorary degree to Nelson Mandela, the great black South African who spoke out for freedom. It seems unlikely; Mandela could not come to receive the degree in person, anyway, because--like so many South Africans, black and white, who too strongly have denounced apartheid--he has been in prison for 15 years.) Apartheid's supporters are not good at taking criticism...