Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school system in which the children of ghetto classes are burdened year upon year with unbroken lines of substitute teachers--teachers unfit, unprepared, inexperienced, teachers who are not teachers, teachers who are fill-ins, who are temporary, who work at night or after school in other jobs, who do not know children, who do not know education, who are not concerned, who are not involved, who do not and cannot care about the lives expiring before them...
...ghetto, it is primarily under the aegis of the rotting schools themselves, in the context of Boston-run compensatory projects which use the name of Harvard in acquiring government money, profit perhaps from an occasional flash of insight, but which in raw fact make little or no dent upon the lives of any detectable number of black children and instead serve mainly to tie up Harvard's hands, the scholars themselves becoming hostage to the School Committee, arming it with prestige, tricking it out with bits of academia, and keeping the once-brave voice of Harvard silent, and its corporate...
...great jeopardy. We do this by not facing the facts, however unpleasant: China is the great power in Asia and she cannot be contained by us; Communism and nationalism are inseparably fused in Viet Nam, and the fusion will not disappear short of genocide. We feel ourselves called upon to destroy the Communist philosophy by war. This is impossible, so we kill people, but not ideas...
...woman show in Manhattan last week, Marlene garnered enough adoring acclaim to make an album. The bravos began before the curtain rose, and there were screams of joy after every encore as ecstatic young men in tight trousers pranced down the aisles to toss bouquets of roses upon the stage...
...Glide is equally freewheeling in structure. It has no formal church committees, instead gets things done through a series of ad hoc "task forces." Every other Sunday after the morning service, the church holds a meeting, open to anyone in town, at which new programs are decided upon and new task forces selected. "We're like a boxer on his toes," says Durham. Among Glide's more successful projects: a "Black People's Store" that supplies needy Negroes with free food, clothing and furniture; a "Citizens Alert" legal-aid group to guard against police brutality; two halfway...