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...told students not to "cop out" and lose their ideals by being "swallowed up in the world of business...
Pride and excellence go hand in hand; one promotes the other. Black solidarity is Professor Kilson's term for what is becoming Third World solidarity. It is neither thumb-sucking behavior nor a cop-out, but rather a positive expression of shared interests that demonstrates an increasing potential for meaningful interaction between culturally distinct groups...
Peter Tarnoff, 41. The only career foreign service officer in the inner cadre, Tarnoff is the Secretary's executive assistant. That means he is Vance's gatekeeper and traffic cop, making certain that subordinates go through channels to catch the boss's attention and that, in turn, Vance's instructions are carried out by the bureaucracy. He has traveled frequently with Vance, including missions to the Middle East, Europe and China. But his most valuable service may be to serve as the Secretary's sounding board and trusted ear when Vance puts his feet...
...crowd. Children from D.C., middle-aged nurses from Detroit, students from Howard, Harvard, Oberlin and countless other schools, members of the Lesbians and Gay Males for Socialism from Boston. Blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, native Americans. If you aren't a racist and you aren't a cop, you should step right in, maybe dance a little to the strains of Gil-Scot Heron before the organizers begin assembling the ranks. "New York just arrived in 103 buses," says a pre-march speaker. "There's 20,000 of us here now! Ain't we nice...
...fellow sociobiologists are seemingly unaware of the existing disciplines which deal superficially with human behavior and social structure..."I become outraged at the ignorance of a person so banal and uninformed who could possibly think such a statement. First of all "he and his fellow sociobiologists" is a cop-out. We're talking about DeVore here, and only DeVore. And Irven DeVore did his graduate work in social anthropology at what was (and maybe still is) the leading intellectual center in the United States: University of Chicago. DeVore has studied in depth the disciplines of psychology and social and cultural...