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...model for manhood. Not a mannequin or a cardboard mock-up, but a living and responsive, vulnerable black man of dignity, Papa Davis taught him the distinction between weakness and tenderness, and impressed upon him that for the poor black in America there is not necessarily a valid connection between punishment and crime, nor need there be a separation between himself and his reason. Most importantly, Papa gave him a galvanic sensitivity to the most fertile possibilities of human life, an awareness that efforts were being made to deny most people access to these potentialities, and a conviction that this...
...California psychologists now offer empirical evidence that faith in the value of competitive sports is simply not valid. Writing in the current issue of Psychology Today, Professors Bruce Ogilvie and Thomas Tutko of San Diego State College contend that "the personality of the ideal athlete is not the result of any molding process but comes out of the ruthless selection process that occurs at all levels of sport." The authors further argue that "athletic competition has no more beneficial effects than intense endeavor in any other field...
...sorrow... We are left with the freedom, and also the necessity of inventing ourselves. Instead of finding meaning in our lives, we must first find a direction. The Vietnamese, for example, are different. Their condition presents them with the necessity of fighting American Aggression. They accept the necessity as valid and meaningful. They can therefore find meaning in the lives they are forced to lead. From them we will have to learn...
...They went to demonstrate at the U.N. to demand freedom for the Quebecois (people of Quebec), and were arrested by agents of the U.S. Department of Immigration. After three months in prison in the U.S. the two were found guilty of illegal entry into the country, although both carried valid passports, and were shipped back to Montreal...
Jack Lynch was born in Cork in an age when peat, potatoes and parish priests meant Ireland. They are still valid symbols, and the country still feels the effects of the terrible potato famine of 1846-48, emigration and a low birth rate. Just before the famine, its population was 8,000,000; now it is 3,000,000. But today's Eire is also a land that produces electronics equipment, Pharmaceuticals and plastics, one where 500 factories have been built in the past decade...