Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson Captain Leslie Cooper was impressed with her squad's showing...
This month in Savannah, which ranks fourth among U.S. cities in homicide rates, a 31-member, N.A.A.C.P.-sponsored citizens task force on black-vs.- black violence was created. Curtis Cooper, president of the Savannah N.A.A.C.P., noted that blacks are usually both perpetrator and victim in Chatham County. The task force, he says, was designed "to wake people up about the seriousness of this problem." Eugene H. Gadsden, a black superior court judge and a member of the task force, asserted that community involvement was essential. "We're the ones being affected most," said Gadsden, "and we ought to be able...
Independent incumbents Alfred Fantini, Joseph Maynard, and Jane Sullivan have announced their candidacies for the committee, as has CCA incumbent Frances Cooper...
Mark Twain for the prosecution: "Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig . . . the Leatherstocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series." D.H. Lawrence for the defense: "Fenimore Cooper has probably done more than any writer to present the Red Man to the white man." For the reader: the Library of America, offering The Leatherstocking Tales in all their flawed glory...
Both critics have a point; Cooper's characterization of Natty Bumppo, the sharpshooter who boasts, "What I can see, I can hit at a hundred yards, though it were only a mosquitoe's eye," shuttles uneasily from stolid frontiersman to animated cartoon. Yet the surrounding Delaware, Iroquois and Sioux are presented for the first time as complex beings with heroic as well as villainous traits. It took another century to amplify the efforts of Cooper, whose unacknowledged voice can still be heard in romantic protest literature and films. If his works now seem closer to scenarios than to novels...