Word: step-child
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...intellectual journals like Commentary. Retreating from their former New Deal left-liberalism, political scientists such as Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and social critics such as Commentary editor Norman Podheretz have nurtured and refined the social theory of "ethnic pluralism," an intellectual construct which--along with its pernicious step-child, "reverse discrimination"--they now trot out to the ideological front lines in their wide-ranging battle to halt the progressive advances of the'60s: affirmative action programs for women and minorities and increased federal spending for the poor and disadvantaged...
...year 1971-72, they had little positive to say. The situation was not one of growth for the department, the department had to focus its energy against the forces in the University who were now attempting to isolate and undermine the department. Suddenly, Afro-American Studies was the step-child no one cared for any longer. It was not a discipline, it should not be a single concentration, it should not be a department, it was not even that great an idea for Black students to study Black people. If the criticisms had been isolated, it might have been easier...
...create a first-class Afro-American Studies Department, the University must stop deceiving itself about the re-affirmation of a supposed long-standing commitment. It must not set about the business of restructuring and reforming the Department. Only in this way can the Department shed its status as a step-child of the Harvard family and assume its rightful place as an equal in the academic community...
...ROTC has been getting the Cinderlla step-child treatment from the Harvard bureaucracy. Last August, the name of their building got changed overnight and new signs for the "Vansberg Building," whatever that means, replaced "Shannon Hall...
However, no one creates in a "social vacuum," he said. The writer "must have roots in his milieu," while maintaining a certain distance between himself and his heritage; he must be "an insider and an outsider, a child of his people and a step-child also...