Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PREMISE: Two women, one a second-generation Chinese-American and the other her Communist Chinese pen-pal, keep in touch over a decade that culminates in Tiananmen Square. Letters explores the contrast of cultures and ideas: freedom, identity, and desire appear through two disparate perspectives...
Over the last couple of years, the English and Afro-American Studies departments and others have had more room to spread out in their multi-disciplinary Barker Center for the Humanities. As of this fall, the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) has a space of its own in the new Maxwell-Dworkin building...
Papers and scientific journals are scattered on nearly every surface in the professor's office. And on one wall hangs the 1997 Newton Lacy Prize from the American Astronomical Society, one of the most prestigious awards the association offers...
...Stanton is retired, but he has spent his life associating with the elite in government and broadcasting. He was president of CBS from 1946 to 1971 and then vice-chairman until 1973. The same year, then-President Nixon named him principal officer of the American National Red Cross...
...late 1980s, she was one of five American Jews to meet secretly with Palestianian leader Yassir Arafat, helping to restart talks between the U.S. and the Palestinian Liberation Organization that had been stalled for more than a decade...