Word: cornel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anybody who's intrinsically first rate...those are the people who warrant second efforts," said Kilson. "Professor Cornel West is one of those persons...
...Harvard Divinity School and Afro-American Studies Department have offered tenure to Cornel West '74, a prominent Princeton African-American studies scholar, according to Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
...Cornel West emerges as a key black thinker...
...protest against segregation. But he went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard in only three years, while simultaneously working two jobs and earning a reputation as one of the most bodacious dancers ever to do the funky chicken on an Ivy League campus. Says his brother Clifton: "Cornel has always liked to go to two or three parties every weekend, but only after reading two or three books. He's been like that since...
Some friends fear the hoopla will prove impossible for West to resist. "You've got to understand one thing about Cornel," says a colleague. "There's a part of him that wants to be the next H.N.I.C. It's not just white folks holding him up." Says Cone: "One of the best ways to destroy someone is to expose and promote him. It's very hard to be critical of a system that makes a hero...