Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Book Store (1256 Mass. Ave.) is the best for browsing. It has a wide selection of just-released hardcovers and new paperbacks. The strongest stock is in women's studies, black studies and sociology. And its used books--it has an entire floor downstairs--are a plus. It usually has some of the most frequently used textbooks for half-price or less, and a lot of good fiction for less than a dollar a book...
...biggest disappointment by far, however, is that the psychology, sociology and black studies sections are full of pop books and near-to-devoid of scholarly work. The Coop, for example, is the one bookstore in the Square that stocks a lot of copies of Dianetics...
...wide-selection of both pop--only a little--and serious work in sociology--particularly in women's studies, black studies socialism/communism and Third World countries--try Revolution Books (14-B Eliot...
...Radcliffe novice eight was the first-ever official national title for a Black and White boat. Racing at Lake Wingra in Madison were bow Kara Berdik, Wendy Svatek, Rosie Hyson, Jolly Stamat, Anne Hardy, Laurisa Shappell, Kristi Stoddard, stroke Amy Constable and cox Maye Chen...
...publicly. Many blame the divisive question of race for the silence. "What he creates is a Teflon coating," explains Washington Post columnist Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. "If you're white, you can't say it. If you're black, you can't say it. In this town, who does that leave?" Race has helped and hindered Barry. Explains friend Carl Johnson: "He's always operating off the backdrop that he's a black male, that he's not supposed to amount to anything." Notes Williams, who is black...