Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TODAY'S students--Black, white, Asian and Hispanic--are tomorrow's social and political shakers-and-movers. They must shoulder societal and institutional burdens far more intricate in tenacity and complexity than any previous generation of American students ever encountered. Rev. Jesse Jackson, during his visit to the Boston area last month, reflected on the importance of today's students to the resolution of tomorrow's ills when he observed that...
...Jackson's remarks got me thinking about two recent events relating to Black students at Harvard. One event, the publication by York Eggleston and the Freshman Black Table of their second annual magazine Outlook, pleased me immensely. The other event, a delegation of Black undergraduates to Dean of the College Archie C. Epps' office requesting the legalization at Harvard of Greek-letter fraternities, saddened...
...with a taut dancer's body, sandblasted jawline, thick uncolored platinum hair and barely a trace of makeup except for one "expensive cosmetic," the face-lifting, her first done in her late 40s. Her fastidiously tailored look is accented by understated braided-gold Cartier jewelry and a black-band Tiffany watch. But behind the reserved, nearly studied exterior, her agile mind freewheels playfully. She conducts the meeting by digression, challenging and revising every assumption presented and switching subjects to alight on a new idea before circling around to finish the last. The method is collaborative: a free-form Scrabble game...
...self- styled vegetarian with a diet of fish, vegetables and pasta, Lear says, "People think older women who are thin don't work at it. They work harder at it." Each season she buys a new wardrobe of Chanel clothes and cruises about Manhattan on 65 pairs of black flats. "At every age a woman should feel she is dressed her best," advises Lear. "Often intelligent women feel embarrassed about concentrating on fashion. They shouldn't. It isn't trivial." Though a feminist, she readily exalts the sexual power of feminine beauty. Blissfully she recalls lounging about a country-club...
Eduard Amvroseyevich Shevardnadze begins his work day the moment he climbs into his black ZIL limousine for the 15-minute ride from his suburban dacha to downtown Moscow. Speeding along the boulevards of the Soviet capital, he telephones the Foreign Ministry for a summary of international news. By the time he arrives at the pinnacled Stalinist skyscraper in Smolensky Square just before 9 a.m., he has been briefed on events and can plunge immediately into the pile of diplomatic cables and documents awaiting him in his seventh-floor office...