Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need hardly remind you that two Black law students were recently required to identify themselves on the law school grounds when Harvard security officers sought a "Black male with a mustache and wearing a dark suit." I am amazed that the University has failed to take corrective action...
...indict not condemn, but I do make a demand upon you and this University. I simply refuse to believe that Harvard security would seek to apprehend a "white male" who had entered a Harvard building without proper identification--or even a "white male with a moustache and wearing a dark suit"--without obtaining further descriptive information. Yet, I know that last night, officers twice stopped me, my brother, and, I suppose, several other Black males in the IAB--or at least the "tall" ones--until they had apprehended the offending parties. This University owes an explanation to its Black students...
White Noise features a cloud of toxic industrial waste, although the author's larger concern is with death as metaphor. As usual, DeLillo mixes black comedy with a ceremonious tone: "The enormous dark mass moved like some death ship in a Norse legend, escorted across the night by armored creatures with spiral wings." The whirly appendages belong to helicopters tracking the monster smudge over Iron City, a small industrial town and home of the College-on-the-Hill...
...starting work on the second half of his exam in Memorial Hall, just as the proctor called out that time was up. The proctor proceeded to walk around the room, collecting all the bluebooks, but somehow he overlooked this particular student, who continued to scribble away frantically in a dark back-corner of the hall...
...books in order in a big pile at the front of the room, cross-checked them with the attendance list for the exam, and performed all the various other administrative duties that proctors must perform at the end of an exam. Meanwhile, the lone student scrawled away in his dark corner...