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...only piece I didn't like, although it was well-written, was Claude Weaver's "Martin Luther King at Oslo." When Weaver writes "the white community is bursting with paternal advice for its little brown brothers," he does exactly what he told me not to do: he looks at someone's skin and sees the big bad wolf. He does what Sheila Rush warned against and again demonstrates the danger that Negro Affairs faces. By lumping the "white community," even for a single sentence, Weaver begins the debilitating process of over-simplification. Moreover, his denigration of King's power sounds...
...more unfortunate in focusing attention on numerical superiority. In an intellectual community the power of the idea is more important than the number of people who favor it. In the early 1950's the Student Council, composed of a combination of elected and appointed representatives, prepared a number of well-written and carefully prepared reports. The Administration not only accepted many of the Council's proposals, but even printed the reports at its own expense...
...well-written, with some really thoughtful interpretative material," one of the more self-conscious Muses felt obliged...
Unfortunately this reviewer cannot convey to you how extraordinarily well-written and alive Sartre's prose in The Words is. The book is the testament of a persevering genius, a writer who labors over his words until they reflect precisely his thoughts, which were clear before he began the process of writing. Now he has turned to the subject he cares most about--himself. The vitality and art with which he speaks of his life are extraordinary
...another move, the Council accept as "a well-written and well-thought-out expression of one point of view" a report on General Education prepared by the Student Committee on Educational Policy...