Word: cleaver
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...young gentlemen from New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere...In vain are freshmen tossed onto the same heap; freshman fellowship, brisk enough in the opening days of College and the first elections of committees, blows away in a whiff of invitations to dances and week-end house parties. The social cleaver widened the chasm that a mistaken laissez-faire created between Yard and Gold Coast; and not even the houses or the Depression have bridged that...
Throughout its history, Harvard College has suffered the effects of a "social cleaver." In the mid-eighteenth century the college president personally listed students, when they enrolled, in order of their social rank or, to be precise, "to the Dignity of the Familie whereto the students severally belonged." The social list was printed in the college catalogue for all to see. The creme de la creme were placed at the top, followed by the social outcasts who attended Harvard because of academic merit. The social list determined precedence in table seating and service during meals, position in academic processionals...
...career lies in recognizing the tragedy that the phrase "socially responsible career" embodies--namely, that society is perverse enough to deny the term "career" an inherently socially responsible character. That society affixes the label "socially responsible" to only certain careers implies that some careers are socially irresponsible. As Eldridge Cleaver said, "You're either part of the solution or you're either part of the problem." There is no neutral ground between working for a better world and working against...
DIED. ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, 62, former Black Panther firebrand and prophet of black empowerment; of undisclosed causes; in Pomona, Calif. While serving a jail term for assault, Cleaver took up the idea of black power and penned Soul on Ice, his radical 1968 polemic on black rage. He joined the Black Panther Party on his release. Two years later, after a gunfight with police in Oakland, he fled to Algeria, Cuba and Paris, living in exile for eight years. Abroad, he embraced fervent anticommunism and evangelical Christianity. Addiction to crack and petty crimes followed his return...
...information minister in the early years of the Black Panther Party, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER was a one-of-a-kind charismatic revolutionary who understood the politics of the human-liberation struggle. Party members called him "Papa" or "the Rage!" Fresh out of prison, he became a literary giant with his book Soul on Ice. Eldridge put his heart, mind and soul into the 1960s movement, but in the early '80s, I read that he said the party should have never existed. He tried to contact me, but I refused to speak with him. One day his ex-wife Kathleen called...