Word: boise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In general, generals are out. Sociology is in; so are racism and other apparently insoluble problems-pollution, poverty and the energy crisis. The illustrations show successful Chicanos and Asian Americans, most of them smiling a lot. Blacks were there before, but mainly as slaves and oppressed sharecroppers. Now they are...
Didion as a rule uses her self-dramatizations with an artist's instinctive discretion. She is an alert and subtle observer, with a mordant intelligence and a sense of humor with touches of Evelyn Waugh in it. She offers a lethal description of fatuous Hollywood political chatter. " 'Those...
The concert opened with a performance of Ravel's Ma Mere l'Oye (Mother Goose), which quite often succeeded in evoking the composer's refreshing fairy-tale images. 'Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant' benefitted from luminous solo passages by the flute and clarinet and conjured a sensuous picture...
In the morning, the alumni attended speeches on affirmative action, undergraduate life, the Du Bois Institute and Afro-American studies. After lunch, the alumni listened to panel discussions and an address by Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development.
Muriel Snowden '38, co-director of Freedom House, Inc., a community service organization in Roxbury, and a member of the Board of Overseers, delivered the keynote address for the convention. C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law and acting director of the Du Bois Institute, spoke about the institute's activities...