Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century the N.A.A.C.P., resolutely mainstream in its struggles for racial justice, has been the most important U.S. civil rights organization. Yet the group has been adrift for almost a decade, and its membership has been halved to fewer than 200,000. Now open mutiny seems to have broken out at the top. With a curt letter sent last week, Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. board of directors, summarily suspended Executive Director Benjamin Hooks...
...active in a committee set up by Poland's Primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, to assist martial law prisoners and their families. Earlier this month, she was one of several people beaten when hoodlums invaded the committee's offices in a Warsaw convent; she suffered bruises and a broken finger when she was hit with a chair. Four other workers were dragged to a truck and later dumped in a suburban forest...
...Desi Bouterse ordered the arrest of 16 of the country's most prominent citizens, including lawyers, journalists and labor leaders. The next morning all but one of them were dead. Doctors later found evidence of knife wounds and cigarette burns on the corpses; teeth and jaws had been broken, while arms had been almost torn from their sockets. Labor Leader Cyril Daal had been ritually castrated. Bou terse, 37, who reportedly killed two of the men, joyfully proclaimed "the building of a new Suriname." But his 350,000 citizens were less sanguine. Over the past five months...
...selected Plays demonstrate, Kleist was the first great absurdist, obsessed with justice and the black-comic ways in which it can miscarry. The Broken Pitcher centers on a judge who is also a malefactor; in Amphitryon, the great Theban commander rages against an impostor "who wants me . .. out of the fortress of my consciousness." This sense of self as an armed camp is one of many traits that make the playwright seem a contemporary of another great admirer, Bertolt Brecht...
...guilty of such offenses. In a previous summer position, such a man proved this to me I'm writing to urge fellow undergraduates and all women to be wary of early signs of harassment subjugation, degradation and exploitation in their summer position. Some Harvard traditions are meant to be broken. Suzanne M.F. Tanner...