Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mailer's current complaint seems a classic case of answered prayers. In Advertisements for Myself (1959) he thrust himself stage center. He became his own best subject and turned narcissism into a method of social analysis. For a heady period, no major public event in U.S. life seemed quite...
With half a dozen politicians jockeying for the position of Democratic contender to the throne, each man has to distinguish himself, to keep from blurring with the blather of the bunch. It is no secret that Gary Hart wants to stake out the territory of "thinking man's liberal," the...
Blacks are "a very big factor in politics now," Jackson said. He added that a Black contender could take enough delegates into the Democratic national convention to shake the platform and even--as a kingmaker--choose the nominee.
Before last month, Chicago's Bernie Epton was a nobody. The sparse press coverage given the Republican contender for mayor was often limited to observations about how little respect Epton got, even from members of his own party, who not long ago convened in Chicago without inviting him to join...
Thomas K. Minter, who is Black, grew up and taught in New York Schools, has a Ph.D. from the Harvard School of Education, headed school systems in Philadelphia and Wilmington. Delaware, served in Washington as assistant secretary of education, and is currently the deputy chancellor of New York schools. The...