Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raise taxes in order to finance its war effort ultimately triggered years of inflation and economic havoc. Should the current Administration's thriftless policies lead to economic crisis public opinion will surely turn against arms programs and Congressman will regret having shot their expensive wad on a marginally effective bunch of missiles at the expense of some future sound and necessary system. If there is a lesson to be learned from Vietnam, it is that when government take the right stand in the wrong place they can only ultimately discredit a valid position...
There is only one problem with this attempt to fashion a contemporary parallel of Renaissance parables: Bogdanovich isn't clever enough to succeed. He prevent us from identifying with. Rocky by surrounding him with a bunch of ridiculously implausible albeit excellently interpreted characters. Cher swaggers through the film as Rocky's coke-snorting, fast-talking mother: short on homespun values but overflowing with love and support for her son. Though motherly love and June Cleaver are not necessarily synonymous, it is still difficult to accept this absurd hybrid of James Dean and Phyllis Schlafly. Every member of Rocky's extended...
...from which they can draw great resource in arranging perspective; for the history of Harvard Black him is replete with examples of positive inspiration: Richard I. Greener, William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. DuBois, Ned Gourd in, Leo Hansberry, Edwin Jourdain, William Hastic, Bob Moses, Barry Williams, Theodore K. Lawless, Ralph Bunch, Robert Weaver, Whitney Young, Arthur Mitchell, Mondedcia Johnson, John Hope Franklin, Countee Cullen, Eve B. Douglass (Radcliffe)--the list goes on and on. It would be a rewarding experience for students to become even more aware of the phenomenally high ratio of Black Harvardians who have made major contributions...
...next morning, after sleeping through a bunch of horrific nightmares, involving me, Duluth and an endless coal shaft, I read the first newspaper column about myself and what was termed "THE article...
Ralph: The serious public figures turned out to be Gerry and a bunch of singers and quarterbacks. But at least the show-biz people aren't under the impression that they delivered some sort of public service message...