Word: attestations
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...schmaltz-coated fist of Billy Crystal. Martin, who's lately focused on his ar-teest side, writing humor for The New Yorker and plays for the stage, seemed to promise a brainier level of humor. Which, as David Letterman and, more recently, the Grammy's Jon Stewart can attest, you can usually count on to be cruelly rewarded at any L.A. awards show...
...works by black authors, including Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing, the reissuing of James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and many of Hughes's works (he indeed is solely responsible for launching Hughes's major publishing career). As the letters between him and Hughes attest, Van Vechten seemed genuinely enamored with the black culture thriving Uptown. Nevertheless, this same man outraged many in the black intellegentsia when wrote a work entitled Nigger Heaven, a provocatively named, mediocre book that contained depictions many critics found offensive. The consequence of this negative reception was the sealing...
...situation. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an asymmetric confrontation between the most powerful nation in the Middle East and the weakest. Any attempt to face up to Israel using violence will only bring more severe repercussions for the Palestinians--a truth to which the death toll can attest...
...numbers attest to China's soul-searching. In 1949, despite centuries of intensive missionary work, the country had only about 4 million Christians. As faith in communism has waned, however, Chinese have increasingly explored Christianity as a way to fill a spiritual void. Unofficial estimates of Chinese Christian converts now run to 50 million, most of whom have had no contact with foreigners. Even with China's reforms, Christian practice remains tightly monitored. The Catholic Patriotic Association controls Catholic dioceses that would normally be administered by the Vatican. Many Catholic believers, however, continue to worship under bishops approved...
College days can be a time for fanciful play and practical jokes--as both The Crimson and our rival the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine--can both attest. Thus it came as no surprise when Lampoon editor Vali D. Chandrasekaran '03 attempted to break into the Crimson Jan. 2, continuing the two publications' long-standing tradition of petty thievery and mischief...