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...they should also be taught that vernacular black culture has worth. Certainly Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote such vernacular classics as Their Eyes Were Watching God - understood that. "Zora chose to write in dialect because she thought the language of ordinary, rural, self-educated black folk was beautiful," Valerie Boyd, author of the Hurston biography Wrapped in Rainbows told me. "She thought this language - the language of her youth, her primary language as a storyteller - was poetic and rich and full of vivid imagery and worthy of being celebrated and immortalized in literature...
...400h, this fall. And Honda says by year's end it will sell a hybrid edition of its V6 Accord that will outperform the standard version in fuel economy and pickup. "We want to sell it on the basis of advanced technology and performance," says Honda spokesman Andy Boyd. That's a novel pitch for a hybrid. Only two years ago, such cars were small and underpowered and, with their oddball designs, seemed destined to appeal mainly to environmentalists, technology buffs and Hollywood stars, who won p.r. points for driving them...
ACME OYSTERS: NEW ORLEANS Thomas trained hard and doubled local champ Boyd Bulot's record at a competition on Saturday. She slurped up 432 oysters...
...Cushman, Nancy Fiske; Phillips Boyd, Frances Anderson; Frank L. Wattendori, Dorothy Stetson; Paul R. Wendt, Edna Wilson...
...coherent form, and life is not quite long enough to accomplish that, but a fact-finding trip with siblings is a big help. Those missing pieces in the puzzle that have been troubling you for years--Why did Dad carry a fire extinguisher when he went to the Boyds' to pick up Wanda for Sunday school? And your sister says, cool as can be, "Because Beryl Boyd was hopped up on vaporizers and liable to hallucinate and think that the house was burning down, and somehow a blast of liquid CO2 seemed to calm her down." And there you have...