Like the era it represents, of prosperity and opulence but a suppressed violence and chaos boiling in its midst, freedom in the 1950's is sorely misjudged as hard-earned autonomy and independence; but in truth, nothing but a speech dressed in white refusing to accept any color than that of the bird in which it signifies. ... Tell me the truth!" ... (p.109) Our protagonist was deeply affected by the insult, so much, that for the entire conversation he had nothing on his mind but the seemingly harmless name of his race, of which he treated as an insult, a degradation to his individuality,...

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University admissions are an all-or-nothing proposition: You're either admitted or you're not. ... The refusal of most affirmative action supporters to acknowledge this unavoidable logical truth " their naive or cynical embrace of Justice Lewis Powell's wiggy notion in Bakke that quotas are bad but race-as-a-factor is OK (because they do it that way at Harvard) " leaves supporters quite rightly scared of what the court might do when it reconsiders the question from scratch. This article was note worthy because it did express on opinion, from a case, where race as a q...

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