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...member strategy committee was formed last week after a day of confrontations that included two abortive attempts by the blacks to confront President Bok at his Massachusetts Hall office and a one and one-half hour mill-in at University Hall...
...better job and a better life, Coles went with them and chronicled their exodus. The South Goes Nort, the third volume of Children of Crisis, documents the adjustments a rural people entering an urban, industrial setting must make in the face of the bewildering array of changes that confront them...
...rally preceded the canceled speech. SDS spokesmen charged Herrnstein with propagating racist theories on intelligence and unemployment. The rally then moved from the center of the campus to the Civic Research Center to confront Herrnstein...
...play, become so pervasive that Giorgio is even prohibited from completing his studies. "I know, I know," he remarks scathingly to the director who tries to apologize for expelling him from school, "all of Italy has a family." In his growing sense of persecution, he is forced to confront his identity as an Italian Jew; with the same sense of unfamiliarity De Sica has transformed an aristocratic garden of delights into a ghetto...
When men and women from Appalachia come up to the cities, the problems they face are not so different from those that confront transplanted blacks. As they soon find out, a man's skill, in itself, counts for nothing: "If you have only your strong arms, it's no good. I can build a house, but I didn't have the references they wanted." There are problems with unskilled jobs, too. "They'll say you spend too many minutes trying to be perfect. I had a job washing cars, but the man said I cleaned each car like...