Word: descent
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Another goal of the program was to connect Africa's art to the art forms of people of African descent...
...confounding my own advice to would-be writers to go sparingly, that one at a time is enough. Her novels flowed in a glittery stream from the first, Under the Net, in 1954, to the last, Jackson's Dilemma, in 1995, after which Alzheimer's claimed her. Her graceful descent into the state of unmindedness was chronicled by Bayley in his tender book, Elegy for Iris, which serves as a memorial to her person. Her novels remain as a testament to Iris Murdoch, the writer...
...embracing it as part of her identity and her human need for happiness. She is not embarrassed if in the past she was foolish or hypocritical: in "Earthly Love" Gluck admits that she once avoided clear self-perception and claims, "And yet, within this deception,/true happiness occurred." In "Descent to the valley," she describes her old vision of life as an upward climb into light followed by a descent into uncertainty, and then states, "I have found it otherwise...
Nisha S. Agarwal '00 has proven that ethnic pride and a strong ethnic identity are effective catalysts for change. Agarwal, who is of Indian descent, says she has encountered few professors that look like her during her first two years at Harvard. She is interested in her ethnic heritage but has found few courses that explore South Asian culture, politics, history, literature and languages. Rather than settling for the Latin Middle Ages, Agarwal took action...
...usually a groan. It's hard to get excited about the latest Barbie disc or Wheel of Fortune for the PC. But last week, after I checked out Encarta Africana, a two-disc, multimedia reference work by Microsoft on the history and culture of Africa and people of African descent, I wanted to kiss the FedEx guy. This remarkable new work blends old-fashioned scholarship and storytelling with color videos and stereo sound to bring its subject alive, starting with a video lecture by poet Maya Angelou, who notes that "it takes more than a horrifying transatlantic voyage chained...