Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least that they are concerned for the same reasons that Mao is. The youthfulness of the Red Guards (most were between 10 and 18 years of age) is logical from Mao's viewpoint, since they symbolize for him a vital new order. But it seems hard to understand why youths should be so violently afraid of death and fearful for their immortality. Lifton quotes extensively from Red Guard statements, most of which in fact emphasize the destruction of the old and its replacement with the new. But this does not imply a concern with immortality. It could just as easily...
There will be 500 of them next year. They will be Yalies in every sense. They will take Yale's courses, eat Yale's food, sleep in Yale's beds. And they will discover the men, as the men discover them--coming in time to love them, understand them, feel their pains and their pleasures. What Harvard and Radcliffe have found out for themselves Yale will now have a chance to learn: that there are many stops on the great highway we call Life, there are many turns, and many detours. Bandits lie in wait to harrass the tardy, pitfalls...
...only beginning to understand that lesson. The most divisive issues of the day?the baffling war in Viet Nam, the Negro's bitter contest for his rights?take much of their heat from the national refusal to entertain the mere possibility of defeat. Why can't the world's mightiest military power vanquish a tiny and underdeveloped Asian state? Why does it suffer a humiliating act of piracy by the North Koreans? Why don't the cops just go in there and re-establish law and order...
...course has been good therapy," says Hamilton Hadden, '71: "I realize I'm a prejudiced person. Maybe by understanding the cultural biases of society I'll understand myself better. The course is no great solution in itself. But if you're interested in current problems and solutions, you'll find them there...
...well understand that they would prefer to have it taught by a black person," he said. "I don't think this means that a white is therefore disqualified, any more than a black would be disqualified from teaching Renaissance history. I would fight to the death any feeling that black professors could teach only black courses....And I've done my best to set up a good reading list. It never occurred to me to check whether the authors were black or white. And if I had it to over again, I wouldn't make that check...