Word: blacking
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...Postmodern Age" has always been an empty description, and "Postindustrial Age" was a phrase about as interesting as a suburban tract. They are not metaphors anyway, but little black flags of aftermath. An age that is "post"-anything is, by definition, confused and dangerously overextended, like Wile E. Coyote after he has left the cartoon plane of solid rock and freezes in thin air, then tries to tiptoe back along a line of space before gravity notices and takes him down to a little poof! in the canyon far below...
...however, the myth of the New World plutocrat persisted. This was still the impression that Gatzoyiannis gave when he met the boat that carried his motherless children from Piraeus to New York City in 1949. Gage, then nine, recalls his father's "gleaming black oxfords, gray overcoat, and broad fedora -- an island of style in a sea of weeping and embracing refugees." The reunited family boarded a new blue DeSoto for the ride to Worcester. The car turned out to be rented, the old mill town no Athens, and Christos Gatzoyiannis no big shot...
...Southwest Corp., which planned to develop Coto de Caza as an upscale resort community and needed a resident tennis pro to lure buyers. Offered the job, Braden accepted on the condition that the company build him a tennis college of his own design and, when that got into the black, a high-tech sports-research center. Six years after the Vic Braden Tennis College opened, in 1974, Arvida Corp., which had taken over Coto de Caza, dedicated a $1.3 million research center on the site...
LAST week two professors, one white woman and one Black woman, rejected tenure offers from Harvard. Although it is heartening to see the University making efforts to create a more representative faculty, last week's failures demonstrate that the University must broaden its strategy...
...Harvard can serve itself and our society by transcending the notoriously short American time horizon and continuing to invest in minority and women graduate students. The payoff will take a while. In Putnam's words, "It takes time for people to become major scholars whether they are male, female, black, white or pink." But is that an excuse not to push ahead...