Word: thoughtlessly
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...complex relationship between these two men that emerges from the letters raises more questions that it answers. It does not, however, permit a thoughtless dismissal of Van Vechten into the historical periphery. Instead we see a man dedicated to and intensely interested in the promotion of black art and, Bernard argues, devoted to using art as a way of challenging racial barriers. Bernard would thus place Van Vechten within the literary vanguard of Larsen, Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, all of whom defended Van Vechten from his harshest critics. These letters reveal that Van Vechten was the first line...
...Yard pump. If the disapproval of the undergraduate body could be given as wide publicity as the act which aroused it, much of the harm done to the best interests of the University would be remedied. But in actual experience this has rarely been possible. The act of one thoughtless individual invariably creates a prejudice against the whole University of which he is a member, and, in the case of those newspaper readers who are unfamiliar with the real spirit of the University, these prejudices are likely to be strong. It is this fact that makes most serious the offenses...