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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That I am typical frightens me. The liberal arts education instills a belief in the primacy of the individual, and while I can easily convince myself that I am somehow a member of an elite, I cannot convince myself that I'm an individual within it. The things I have to say about Harvard College, I can find, more or less, already written down--some of them more than a century ago. The tensions which tear at me inside are all documented in Erik Erikson's books; it seems they are tearing at every other adolescent's insides as well...
This is not to say that within the group, the basic unit of College life, there is harmony. The group is the framework for thought and experience, but the members often disagree with each other. A black student told me recently that earlier this year the blacks suffered from strong differences within their ranks. In general, younger blacks wanted to take more radical action against the University, and older ones wanted to cool it, to wait and see if the University would come around to their position on the creation of an Afro-American studies program. But despite the tensions...
However negative black anti-Semitism may be, it can have a positive aspect for both democracy and the Jew. If the U.S. is to be a genuinely pluralistic society, then its goal is not to assimilate minorities, but to let them?within reason?live together, each in its own way. The Jews have had practice in this. The black is just beginning the course, and it is unfortunate that part of the cost of his tuition must be paid by Jewish tolerance. But so long as U.S. society repudiates the anti-Semitic hostility of the black and prevents it from...
...hiring of Boyd suggests, Johnson has not hesitated to depart from the railroad's tradition of promoting from within. Boyd, the former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, was an able and dedicated administrator of the $6 billion-a-year Transportation Department. But he was not too adept in dealing with Congress, and that stymied his efforts to bring the Maritime Administration under the department's jurisdiction and to relieve overburdened airports. In Boyd, the Illinois Central may also be getting some trouble; conflict-of-interest questions have been raised about the Department of Transportation's grant...
...Brothers Cohn-Bendit see it, the explosion of 1968-with its barricades, its bloody street battles, its crippling general strike-came within a hairbreadth of toppling Charles de Gaulle. "From the 27th to the 30th of May," they insist, "nobody had any power in France. The government was breaking up, De Gaulle and Pompidou were isolated. The police, intimidated by the size of the strike and exhausted by two weeks of fighting in the streets, were incapable of maintaining public order. The army was out of sight; conscripts could not have been used for a cause in which...