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Show -149- The announcer had said something about the Black students at the University submitting a list of demands. He asked if the Professor knew anything about it. The Professor told them about the meeting on the quadrangle, but he told the story briefly when he saw they were not really interested? "How is your book coming?" his daughter asked. He told her he had not had much time to work on it recently - with all the meetings. "I didn't think you liked attending meetings." "I don't," he told her, "but something serious is going on right now? I need to know what it is." "I should think? whatever it is, the book would be more important?" "Maybe it is," he replied, "but what about you? How much painting are you doing these days?" "Not much?" She got the point and laughed. "I have to help make a living," she said. "So do I," he replied? "I'd like to stay home every day." "And you could," she insisted?. "Just show up for your classes. Skip the meetings?" His daughter? having been brought up on university campuses, did not think highly of them; One of her husband's friends had offered him a job at his university? but she had talked him out of accepting. The real theater, she maintained, |