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...legacy of Lincoln for Blacks. Lincoln's emancipation allowed the previously enslaved to participate actively, for the first time, in fashioning the national story, the life of the nation, Lincoln thus becomes the founding father of a truly free and democratic America: moving the founding of America to the advent of emancipation is the originary point for this play about "reconstructed historicities...
...been born on July 14, for the Swedish director has always been something of a revolutionary. While Sweden's film industry had made a name for itself during the years of silent movies, producing actors like Greta Garbo and directors like Victor Sjostrom, it became practically unknown after the advent of sound. This was the state of affairs until Bergman single-handedly put Swedish film on the map again in the 1950s. Until his retirement in 1983, Bergman produced a corpus of films which marked him as one of the most important and influential film directors of the twentieth century...
...writing to point out the amusing irony I discovered in Raymond Liu's editorial, "Info-Vasion" (March 21, 1994). Liu decries the "hype" that he believes characterizes the advent of new technologies, asserting that it "should not be...swallowed without thought." Yet lack of thought pervades his editorial. Liu wants us to wait until we have complete information about a plan before endorsing it; would that he had tried to gather more complete information before blindly flailing at systems like Clipper...
...course, after some efficient deprogramming my dad was able to convert me into an acceptable variety of Christian. In fact, as I write, I'm counting down the days until the end of lent, and the advent of desert (which I gave up). My early experience left though. I still wonder...isn't it great to be Jewish...
...protesters should, if anything, be pleased with certain recent events." Implicit in this statement is the suggestion that with the hiring of the eminent Princeton professor Cornel West '74, the battle has been won, that the University's dearth of minority faculty has been magically alleviated by the advent of this single man, that we should be appeased and shut up and go home...