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...disappoint them. He appeared in the House of Commons in ascot and sandals, frugged, dated Barbra Streisand, and in general looked and behaved more like a playboy than in the usual stodgy manner of Canadian Prime Ministers. He also fashioned solid accomplishments such as his firm handling of the separatist crisis in 1970, pushing a tax reform through the Commons and opening relations with China...
...Arthurs and she has enthusiasm and ideas aplenty. Like Horner, Arthurs stresses that her office is not meant to duplicate existing Harvard agencies. "I am committed to the idea of utilizing Harvard's resources for all students," she said in an interview last week. "We shouldn't be seriously separatist but should work in the broader community to force and challenge the available sources to work their damnedest for women...
...programs at the Radcliffe Institute and the Schlesinger Library and ironing out some of the operational details of the 1971 agreement. She has moved in on many of these problems in a way which has created confusion about her priorities but which defies labelling her simply as a separatist...
Professor Derrick Bell's letter in May 21st Crimson is as ignorant as it is pathetic. Its ignorance is manifold: First, none of my comments and analysis on the dysfunctional aspects of the black separatist lifestyle have ever denied that this behavior was due in part to white racist patterns, and in my Bulletin article (April) I actually state that "such behavior is a conscious countering of white racist exclusivism with black ethnic exclusivism." What I have said, and would reiterate, is that the black separatist students use the charge of white racism as a catch-all explanation for their...
...cutting separation. Underlying these questions, which are typically expressed in hushed whispers by whites after skirting an all-black dining table, is the assumption that black students are at fault, that they are either afraid of contact with whites, or worse, that the blacks are racists in reverse. Separatist black behavior is seen as somehow aberrant, as a puzzling deviation from a harmonious norm...