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One can meet with aloofness almost anywhere: the THIDIU viewpoint, It Doesn't Affect Us!!

Southern Liberals ( there are a good many ) -- especially if they're rich -- often exhibit blithe insouciance.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

You've already sent your daughter to Miss X's select academy for girls and your son to Mr. Y's select academy for boys, and you can be as liberal as you please with strict impunity.

If there's no suitable academy in your own neighborhood, there's always New England.

New England academies welcome fugitives from the provinces, South as well as West.

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.

A recent newspaper report said there were five Negroes in the 1960 graduating class of nearly one thousand at Yale ; ;

that is, about one-half of one per cent, which looks pretty `` tokenish '' to me, especially in an institution which professes to be `` national ''.