Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNQUESTIONABLY, there is a kernel of truth to the University's fears. At the University of Pennsylvania, for example, over 100 Blacks all live together in one Black house, arguably hindering interracial contact. But a few Freshman Week activities, or a little special attention to the unique obstacles that affect minorities here, would hardly mean militant separatism...
...pressed to find a public school where Ralph Waldo Emerson hasn't been replaced by tales of streetwise punks" [May 31]. Many of my students are streetwise, but also enjoy Emerson. His philosophy is applicable to the young person today who understands that with our economic turmoil "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...
...this book has a disappointing aspect, it is the rather scanty treatment of Martin Buber, the towering religious humanist or humanistic religious. Somewhere in Buber, it would seem, lurks the kernel of the new understanding of self, and the relationship of man to Almighty. We are not powerless, victimized by an existential fate, doomed to fraudulent, terrorized lives. We can (not shall) overcome...