Word: cruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LACKING critical theorists, playwrights, or critics of the arts, the cohort dominated by public policy economists has found a comfortable but confining role within the broader conservative movement. The conservatives have not fulfilled Harold Cruse's requirement of two decades ago, that Blacks develop their own, complete, "cultural nationalism...
Frazier approaches his subjects like a man who does not want to move too fast and frighten them away. In the title story, he decides to find out a little something about Ponce Cruse Evans, the woman who writes the syndicated column "Hints from Heloise." This involves, for some reason, driving from Chicago to San Antonio, where Evans lives. "In Muskogee, Oklahoma," Frazier confides, "I saw a Taco Hut, a Taco Bell, and a Taco Tico." Then he has to find a suitable motel ("I wanted a locally owned one") and assess his impressions so far: "I had not been...
...little after 6 p.m. last Thursday, William Bryan Cruse, 59, got into his car, carrying a high-powered rifle, a shotgun, a handgun and a bag of ammunition, and headed for a nearby shopping mall in Palm Bay, Fla. (pop. 45,000). He opened fire through the plate-glass windows of a crowded Winn Dixie supermarket and an adjacent jewelry shop. Stan Graybush, 45, was near a check-out line inside the Winn Dixie. "I heard boom boom boom," he said. "I yelled, 'Get on the floor!' There must have been 50 people running in all different directions...
...Cruse took hostages and held off police for 7 1/2 hours before being captured. His toll: six dead, including two policemen, and 14 injured. The gunman, a retired librarian who is married to an ailing wife, had a reputation as a neighborhood crank. To one of his hostages, he explained his mindless massacre: "If I wasn't drunk, it wouldn't have happened...
...editing error, a March 1 opinion piece entitled, "Crisis After Cruse" misidentified Yale Professor Cornel West as Conrad West...