Word: central
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some of the events of the year -- the starvation in Biafra, for example, or the seizure of the American intelligence ship Pueblo -- might have occurred in some other year. The events were significant, but not central to the drama. For the essential 1968 was mythic. It proceeded chaotically, and yet finally had the coherence and force of tragedy. And if it was the end of some things (of the civil rights movement, of Lyndon Johnson's generous social vision, of the liberals' hope to keep government on its trajectory), it prepared the way for other beginnings: the women's movement...
...ROWAN, cohost of Laugh-In, died in 1987 of lymphatic cancer. -- MARK RUDD, Columbia University student radical, spent 7 1/2 years as a fugitive with the radical Weatherman. He now lives and writes in Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he is an active opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. -- BOBBY SEALE, cofounder of the Black Panthers, studies and teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has published a book on barbecuing. -- SIRHAN SIRHAN, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, was sentenced to death, later reduced to life imprisonment. He lost his ninth bid for parole in May 1987. -- TOMMIE SMITH...
...Medievalists are generally interested in England and France," said Leyser, "and not much attention was given to central Europe. It's my lifetime's work...
...matter of satisfying those who feel aggrieved, it is a matter of acknowledging that the feeling is real. DuBois would have been sympathetic to the Black student far more than he would have been to Bloom. One of DuBois' central tasks was to show the important contributions of Black culture, to show that what he termed the "Sorrow Songs," the Negro spirituals, were the equivalent of Shakespeare...
Many professors say that it is the structure of FAS itself which prevents change. This spring, issues of faculty recruitment and tenure, an increasingly severe shortage of space for libraries and faculty offices and FAS governance are likely to play a central role in debates among Harvard's 800-plus faculty...