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...inequities of generations do not vanish overnight. The continuing complaints about the competence of black teachers constitute white Georgians' first experience with the awful toll of separate and unequal. Says Dr. Benjamin Mays, retired president of Morehouse College and chairman of the Atlanta school board: "If a black teacher is not good enough to teach a white kid, then he shouldn't be teaching black kids either. Black teachers were never said to be incompetent until they were sent to teach white children. We are in chaos and we are going to be in it for some time." Despite...
...valuable box office draw. His life is insured for $2,000,000, though few who see him urging tigers to leap aboard elephants would care to have money hanging on his longevity. For Gebel-Williams it is pure joy. "When I get together with my tigers, all my worries vanish," he says...
...other radiation can escape from it. Thus the star cannot be detected by conventional observations. It becomes a black hole, or as Cameron calls it, a "collapsar." If a star-crossed spaceship ever strayed close enough to such a cosmic abyss, it would be drawn immediately into it and vanish completely from sight...
Bertucelli begins with an excerpt from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. It makes the not very unique observation that bourgeois influence does not vanish when the bourgeoisie depart. Fortunately Bertucelli then propels language into gesture and diurnal life into dramatic text. Ramparts of Clay has but one vital incident. A company official travels a great distance to pay the quarriers of the village. The wages are arbitrarily halved; the men go on a sit-down strike. Soldiers are called in, ringing the strikers who cannot join their families a few hundred yards away. Food is denied...
...Harvard and Yale are identical, that our traditions are similar, and our sympathies common. Any feeling of hauteur or superiority with which Harvard undergraduates may have regarded Yale at the founding of that institution has certainly perished in the lapse of time. Any such feeling should certainly now vanish before Yale's fair escutcheon, blazoned, as they justly remark, with the noble achievements of one hundred and seventy years...