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...beyond the thin veil of social science, there looms an ominous moral predicament. Harvard students are no longer leaders, but followers. At the time we graduate, we do not have the will to confront a tired and hardened world with our youthful vigor. We are non-confrontationalists, consensus builders. We want nothing more than to please the men and women who currently wield the real-world's power, whether they go by the name boss or parent. In short, there is a general spirit of conformist malaise about Cambridge these days...
...more." Henry Louis Gates Jr. does not go nearly that far in Colored People (Knopf; 216 pages; $22), his memoir of growing up in a West Virginia mill town during the 1950s and '60s. But his beguiling elegy for the exuberant society blacks created for themselves under the veil of segregation provides one explanation of why few African Americans, even if they had the power to change, would choose to be anything else...
...glided halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn or condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil...
Concentrators say the administration needs tolisten to their concerns about faculty. And forhis part, Davis says the veil of secrecysurrounding decisions on linguistics must belifted...
Perhaps Yu Should drop his veil of "objectivity" and honestly consider what political biases of his own make it so hard for him to accept that it really is an issue of "good against evil" when ordinary citizens are harassed with death threats and dead dogs doubly inauspicious in this Year of the Dog because of their sexuality. Carsey Yee Graduate Student, History and East Asian Languages