Word: authors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard doesn't do enough for handicapped students," said Guy B. Wallace '88, author of the report and president of Advocacy for a Better Learning Environment (ABLE), the student organization that tries to improve the lives of handicapped students at Harvard. "The University has a long way to go on this issue," he said...
...what is being offered is preponderantly a brand-new book, more than half-filled with stories that Morris' most dedicated readers may have missed when the pieces first appeared in periodicals. Also on view is the prospect of an author in his eighth decade of working at the top of his form, burnishing a reputation that was securely polished long...
...countervailing and arresting image: of swallows on a Spanish mountaintop ("Their flight on the sky was like fine scratches on film"); of a vista in Boise, Idaho ("My aunt's couch faced the door, which stood open, the view given a sepia tone by the rusted screen"). The author offers glimpses of strange lives and then, with wisdom and art, makes them clear and permanent...
...behavior of black youths. Glenn Loury, a political economist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, notes, "The characteristics, the attitudes, history, criminal-arrest records and other qualities of the young men themselves make them difficult to employ." Elijah Anderson, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of A Place on the Corner, a 1978 study of the lost men of the ghetto, believes that out of a misplaced sense of pride, many black youths are unwilling to accept the low- paying, low-prestige jobs that their forebears held. "They puzzle the older generation," says Anderson...
...idea of mask and game playing is very important here. We're talking about an almost Oriental kind of concept of face and honor," says John Edgar Wideman, author of Brothers and Keepers, a 1985 book about his relationship with his brother Robbie, who is serving a life sentence for murder. Says Wideman of life on the street: "There is an invisible value system in which people are quite literally willing to go to war because somebody looks at them cross-eyed. When you have that kind of tension, when you have those rules that are worth life and death...