Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Old-fashioned" racism, which is overt andoften institutional, has largely vanished, Battssaid. But a subtler, and perhaps more insidious,form of discrimination has taken its place, shesaid.
But the younger poets eventually overcame their fears and became successful writers, inside and out of the classroom.
But members of the new generation say that writing has been less a choice than a necessity for them. Like their predecessors, the new poets see poetry as a way to express--and get through--life's tragedies.
But in 1977, she said, many observers began todrop their guard by assuming that becausediscrimination had become illegal, it thereforeceased to exist.
Dickerson did most of the damage on the break, finishing 9-for-17 from the field. Point guard Dwight Pernell--averaging 20 points per game--was limited to eight points because of a poor shooting night (3-for-10 from the field). But the 6-ft., 1-in. co-captain...