Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...astounding to see how the government of Benjamin Netanyahu increasingly echoes shades of the intransigent, apartheid-era South African government of President P.W. Botha. Only Netanyahu's personal charisma precludes even more opprobrium in the face of international condemnation of his hardened position on the Palestinian question...
RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994) His novel Invisible Man (1952) began with the sentence "I am an invisible man" and concluded, "Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" The words in between brought African-American experiences vividly into the literary mainstream and spurred a renaissance that continues to this...
That Holiday made Strange Fruit, her powerful and disturbing antilynching protest, the centerpiece of her repertoire suggests that her artistic choices were conscious and principled, and--like so much African-American art--perhaps far more nuanced than popular critical reviews have yet revealed...
...Sudanese-born supermodel Alek Wek stands poised and insouciant as the talk-show host, admiring her classic African features, cradles Wek's cheek and says, "What a difference it would have made to my childhood if I had seen someone who looks like you on television." The host is Oprah Winfrey, and she has been making that difference for millions of viewers, young and old, black and white, for nearly a dozen years...
Harvard also made its mark abroad this year. Sirringhaus won the 1500-meter Freestyle at the long-course South African Nationals, which took place the weekend after NCAAs. His time was an impressive one-tenth of a second off of his best time, with which he ranked 38th in the world in 1997. Sirringhaus also took second in the 400-meter Freestyle long course...