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Some people might want to criticise what I say, but I hope they notice my funny accent and keep in mind that I am a third-world person...
...remarks Niebuhr Biographer June Bingham. "The last 20 years of his life were years of severe pain. He bore them with grace and humor." In those same years a younger generation of Protestant liberals was drifting away from Niebuhr's concept of constantly contending self-interest to revolutionary, third-world romanticism. He had decried "a too-simple social radicalism [that] does not recognize how quickly the poor, the weak, the despised of yesterday may, on gaining a social victory over their detractors, exhibit the same arrogance." It was a comment typical of his hardheaded, pragmatic realism in human affairs...
...conference participants included representatives of the SMC, the Young Socialists Alliance (YSA), the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus (RMC), the Workers' League (a Trotskyist group), and several women's, Third-World, and gay liberation groups...
...What are the problems in reducing male admissions? We have worked hard for, and now benefit from, representation of significant numbers of students from a wide variety of social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. But in fact we should have more third-world students. We should have more sons of alumni. We should have more lower-middle-class and lower-class economic representation. There are many special groups and constituencies within the Harvard undergraduate body. The New England college flavor, which lends a cultural distinctiveness to what otherwise might be a homogenized University of the United States, requires significant enrollment...
Meanwhile SDS has issued four demands of its own-no military recruiting at Harvard, abolition of ROTC. promotion of painters' helpers, and 20 per cent black and third-world workers on construction sites-which will be put on a petition gathering support for a mass meeting the following Monday...