Word: defendents
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However, what I find most disturbing about the continued use of these names and mascots is that my fellow people of color defend them as heartily as white people. One would think that having lived through (and still living in) an environment in which every name but our own was hurled at us and used to denigrate us, we would empathize with Native Americans in a similar circumstance. But, instead we offer the same weak arguments used by Cooke...
...some Democrats defend their President, still others feel betrayed by him. And I admit that I feel a bit betrayed as well. It's hard to blame us. We gave up our weekends in January and February of last year to campaign for Clinton and Gore in desolate New Hampshire; we spent our days fleeing from angry dogs and angrier shotgun-toting Republicans, all in search of one or two extra votes; we spent our nights with students from dozens of other schools on the frozen tundra of a YMCA gym mat--at the very least we could have been...
...obscure: Stone is, for all the glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested--as was Flannery O'Connor--in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence. The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: "Sometimes I try to imagine what it's like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern." The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers in this remarkable collection know it is a cry of pain...
...Advocate, would I defend...
...glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested?as was Flannery O?Connor?in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.? The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers in this remarkable collection know it is a cry of pain...