Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death by firing squad. Not knowing whether they would succeed, Gilmore was finding it hard to play it cool. "He's like a caged animal," said a prison official. "He's very nervous -more nervous about someone trying to stop the execution than the date coming closer." For a time, a family reunion with his two brothers and an aunt and uncle put Gilmore in a better mood, though he was disappointed that his mother, Bessie Gilmore, was ill and could not make the trip. "The family should be together on an occasion like this," said his uncle...
...musical is as innocent as the birth of song and dance. One legitimate objection to Ipi-Tombi might be that it seems rather closer to Shubert Alley than to the tribal life and customs of the Zulus. The story line is simplicity itself. A young man (Daniel Pule) who lives in the village of Tsomo is drawn to the big city (presumably Johannesburg) in the hope of earning more money for his wife (Linda Tshabalala) and family. He finds urban life unappetizing and dehumanizing and returns to his hometown. That a simple, unspoiled child of nature can be corrupted...
...fairly well the task of bringing Afro-American studies to the Harvard community, in 1972 the University and the department were at odds. The University chose to ignore the tasks it had assigned itself in 1969, and abandoned all commitment to the young department. The DuBois Institute was no closer to establishment than when it was first conceived. The standing committee had made no recommendations for tenure positions in the department. There was no graduate program in Afro-American studies. When the three-year Review Committee met in the year 1971-72, they had little positive to say. The situation...
...Partisanship, some say, is the enemy of true research. If this is true, then there has been no "true" scholarship in all the history of mankind. All problems of all times have been approached by all people from one perspective or another. This deification of objectivity brings us no closer to the truth, and serves only to disguise bias and pass it off as fact...
Harvard lost to the Friars by an identical 5-4 margin back at Watson rink in December, but if possible, this game was even closer. Down by a goal with only a minute left, Harvard pulled goalie Brian Petrovek off the ice and went with six skaters...