Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Kilson, member of the teaching staff, is not black enough. Says Clyde Lindsay, '69: "Professor Kilson will have to put some emotion in his lectures to let the students know that he has a perspective from which they can view the black man's historical experience in a light perhaps many of them have not considered." A letter to the Crimson from Jeffrey P. Howard, '69, adds this thought: "It should be clear from this point forward that Kilson's views are not particularly black -- he seems to have much more in common with his old-line colleagues...
...victory is not victory for an individual," Lowenstein told them when he appeared. "It is a victory for a point of view. This only means that we've been given the opportunity to do things, not that we've done them...
HERE ALSO is a key notion put forward by Mrs. Ellmann when she turns from Their analogies to Their view of women themselves. This is the idea that men must struggle to achieve manhood, they must prove themselves in all sorts of tests, while women are women and must transcend the failings of their sex to attain their ideal condition. Manhood is a title conferred; womanhood is a judgment to be escaped. They say "he's a man" in praise of any manifestation of worth; the equivalent for women is "she's a real person." "She's a woman...
...OBVIOUS that the villain of the story is They. Mrs. Ellmann does a good job of pinning down the general view of femininity; she even manages to grind her axe gently. But instead of explaining why the view exists and how it affects real women she trails off in feeble optimism. She argues that writing and opinions are moving toward a mode of indecision, a non-judging, antiabsolutist, amoral, particularized view of life in which no form the species can take is not somehow acceptable and in which the artist's aim is to become rather than to judge...
Presumably, though Mrs. Ellmann stops here, when the imagination of the multitude seizes on this world view women's minds will be finally liberated. But even overlooking the fragility of this vision of a non-struggling, non-judging society, problems arise. Everyone can't groove passively on the complexity of reality; someone will have to make decisions and run things--and it is then that we will have women factory managers and women Presidents; men's minds will function on higher levels...