Word: ams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Afro-American Studies Department is no stranger to controversy. The department grew out of the turbulent events of 1969, when black students called for its creation as one of the demands of the Harvard strike. While members of Afro, the student association of Harvard blacks, waited in the lobby...
Although much of the rhetoric in the controversy over Af-Am has been political, the basic issue in the debate is an educational one. Critics of the department say the Afro-American perspective does not constitute a separate discipline any more than, for example, the Jewish or woman's perspective...
Rosovsky says, however, while no "restricted funds"--bequest money tagged for a specific purpose--are earmarked for Af-Am, many departments have no such nest egg. Rosovsky adds that his office juggles unrestricted funds to assure financial security to departments with no restricted money of their own.
Washington had the feel of him too. Baker's friend John Chancellor reports that once Lyndon Johnson, then Vice President and lonely, threw his arm around Baker, pulled him into his office and began a long, intimate, anecdote-filled confession of his hopes for the coming political season. Baker had...
The frenzy at the Majestic has plenty of precedents. The 1971 remake of No, No, Nanette, for instance, seemed doomed. Rehearsals were a continual change in dance steps, dialogue and costumes. The legendary Busby Berkeley was superseded by Burt Shevelove. But when Nanette finally reached Broadway, it ran for 861...