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...Shining Armor...
...teach Afro-American Literature because I believe that when one removes the iron armor of racial identity, all that one finds beneath is man: puny yet powerful; fragile yet fecund; humble yet humane. Man in all of his wonderous and multifarious beauty. Afro-American man shares in this brotherhood of man and so it is that through a statement of our images, metaphors, symbols, and the subtle nuances that have been the province of literature from time immemorial we express the peculiar and distinctive nuances of our humanity...
...threatened to engulf any real musical results. The center of excitement was the conservatory. When Violinist Joseph Silverstein wandered into a studio where Situ Dahong, 18, was practicing, the room was quickly jammed by other students, teachers and members of the press, including a CBS camera crew in full armor. The young man kept playing a Bach adagio, but it was a feat of poise. The next day, 500 violinists came for Silverstein's master class, some from hundreds of miles away. Only the tuba (ten) and the harp (20) drew fewer than 50 people. In all the studios...
...onslaught against Phnom-Penh was in sharp contrast to a round of skirmishing centered in the Parrot's Beak border area a year ago. In that fighting, Vietnamese forces attempted to halt Khmer Rouge raids across the border. But the Vietnamese were battered by the tough Khmer. Vietnamese armor, which was sent to harass the Khmer, ran out of gas and had to be rescued by Vietnamese airmen flying captured American planes...
...motto on Milo Smith's office wall reads: "She who waits for the knight in shining armor must clean up after his horse." Widowed nine years ago at 47, she went back to college "to get another piece of paper." At 50, she was told she was unemployable. "They said I should go to the welfare office, that my new degree was worthless because of lack of recent work experience...