Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, campus activists opposed to Harvard's policies organized rallies that drew hundreds. They founded a novel and successful alternative senior gift fund called that Endowment for Divestiture--money from which will not go to Harvard until it divests. And about seven students staged a brief hunger strike to protest Harvard's South Africa-related investments All those moves attracted substantial attention from news organizations across the United States and in South Africa...
...This leads me to several brief comments about requirements of effective Black leadership in a period where the Afro-American elites or bourgeoisie are now national elites, not ghetto elites...
...book. That is what happened to Author Graham Greene, 80, who learned in 1983 that something of his called The Tenth Man had been unearthed from the archives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He remembered working under contract to MGM back in 1944 and thought he might have written a brief scenario of a story that could, conceivably, have borne that title. But when the discovered typescript was sent to him, as Greene notes in an introduction, he was astonished: "It proved to be not two pages of outline but a complete short novel of about 30,000 words. What surprised...
...comparatively brief tale, evidently written with the prospect of filming firmly in view, The Tenth Man has more than its share of narrative grace notes and finesse. The weariness and dislocation that gripped Europe as the Nazis began retreating are suggested in a single sentence: "When a war ends one forgets how much older oneself and the world have become: it needs something like a piece of furniture or a woman's hat to waken the sense of time." A simple parish priest delivers a worldly homily: "All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware...
...Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Dressed in a plaid suit and mauve hat, Her Majesty visited the freshly painted newsroom, known as "the pit," and chatted with dozens of employees, from reporters in white shirts to pressmen in working clothes. The paper's labor editor caused a brief commotion when he told BBC radio listeners that the Queen had commented on the cause of a protracted miners' strike; the royal family is expected not to discuss politics, and the paper quickly retracted the remarks. The Queen Mother still plans to come to lunch. And Prince Charles and Princess Diana...