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Hamilton says a woman who seldom makes sexism an issue has more effect when she does make an objection. "I got called the 'prettiest little girl in our class' by a classmate at a job-hunting party. I pointed out to him later that that wasn't a compliment--and he won't do it again. If he had been used to my objecting to his vocabulary, he wouldn't have taken me seriously...
...scene in the locker room before the Dallas game summed up Wilkinson's approach to football. He did not raise his voice-he seldom does, or needs to-but he held the attention of the Cardinals. Wilkinson was not talking about pass patterns or defensive alignments; he was describing, with unabashed and unaffected emotion, a time 25 years in the future when the players would be remembering this game. You are going to wish you were back here, he told them, and you had a chance to put it all on the line in an afternoon-to test yourself...
...authoritarian society in which the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's sayings, statue or visage (often today paired with that of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng) dominates every public place-though Mao buttons and the once ubiquitous little Red Book of Mao's quotations are seldom seen today. The people professedly live and work by Mao-Marxist cliches insisting that everyone's labor is for the greater good of socialism. In reality, as in any other country in the world, that means work hard and make a buck...
...seldom recognized by today's black students that the small number of blacks at top-rank white schools before the 1960s was extremely skillful at exploiting the unique success-patterns at these institutions...
...included--for most of them had postgraduate training--then the proportion of black graduates going to advanced study in the pre-1960s era is nearer to 70 per cent. This is comparable, and probably superior, to the figure for white Harvard graduates in the same period. By contrast, seldom in these years did more than 5 per cent of the graduates of black colleges pursue advanced degrees...