Today’s heroes—some of them, anyway—tell us they enjoy their 1 . “And I 2 to myself at the men and the ladies. Who never 3 of us billion-dollar babies.” The 4
“culture hero” who 5 that is Alice Cooper.
If I said that being black is a greater 6 than being a woman, probably no one would 7
me. Why? Because “we all know” there is 8 against black people in America. That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still 9 nearly all men—and, I am afraid, most women—as 10 .
There is, however, another 11 possessed by the best work, which is even more important as a 12 of happiness than is the exercise of 13 . This is the element of constructiveness. In some work, though by no 14 in most, something is built up which remains as a 15 when
the work is completed.
My own state of mind, when I left Watts eight years ago to take up the 16 year at Whittier College, was 17 . It was to me less of a 18 ; it was the stepping off point of an Odyssey that was to take me through Whittier College and Oxford University, to Yale Law School, and back to Watts. I had 19 then, as now, to make Watts my 20 .
Well, it’s a good life and a good 21 , all said and 22 , if you don’t 23 , and if you know that the big wide world hasn’t 24 from you yet, no, not by a long way, though it won’t be long now. The float bobbed more violently than before and, with a 25 on his face, he began to wind in the reel.
A. handicap
B. element
C. weaken
D. means
E. heard
F. question
G. freshman
H. home
I. strikes
J. done
K. source
L. different
M. conceived
N. particular
O. grin
R skill
Q. laughed
R. prejudice
S. monument
T. sings
U. rewards
V. departure
W. intended
X. world
Y. bizarre
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