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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.