Word: tokenism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives on, blinded. What follows is more climactic and cruel than the book's actual ending. Axel silently shares the house and Margot, while the pair mulct the pitiable Albinus of his remaining money ("Before we go we'll buy him a dog-as a small token of our gratitude...
Neither a new degree nor a changed M.A. will carry much weight unless introduced by influential universities like Harvard, Yale, and California, and these are already overburdened by candidates for a straight research degree who are dear to the hearts of research-oriented university faculties. By the same token, there will be little hope until small colleges, and perhaps university colleges, recognize that research and teaching are not only different, but often independent, and in a manpower shortage, antithetical. If liberal education is to survive at all, colleges must also learn that the aim of education is to produce...
...Token integration for New Orleans' first-grade pupils is scheduled for Nov. 14, but only 135 Negro children have applied. All "integrated" classes will be segregated by sex. Even these minimal plans may yet be killed by Louisiana's guitar-twanging Governor Jimmie Davis, who insists that he will allow no integration...
...times, as well as the students, were appropriate for action. Sit-ins began in the border states, precisely where the implementation of the Supreme Court's 1954 school decision was evident, and where the Negro had been less intimidated than the deep South. After six years, there was "token integration" and little more in a number of school systems. Southern Negro college students recognized that token equality is in effect no equality...
...deliberate mastery of the medium. He has superb control of his camera. His images are continuously beautiful but never obtrusive; they rise out of the story as naturally as thoughts rise out of the pool of Vishnu-there is nothing arty in Ray's art. By the same token his actors act, not with the usual bombinations of Oriental drama, but as though the camera had found them alone and simply living; and they live, as few characters in pictures do, real lives that swell to the skin with pain and poetry and sudden mother wit. Actor Chatterjee...