Word: descent
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Today, one in four students at the College is Jewish. And several top University administrators are of Jewish descent--including Provost Jerry R. Green, who last week gave a talk on how lessons from the Judaic tradition of moral law could benefit the Harvard administration...
...Malcolm X himself are equally revealing. Cornel West's essay on "Malcolm X and Black Rage" deals with the transformative, freeing anger so central to Malcolm's thought and his electrifying oratory style. For West, Malcolm articulated outrage at "the sheer absurdity that confronts human beings of African descent in this country--the incessant assaults on Black intelligence, beauty, character and possibility." With his trademark eloquence, West elucidates how that rage served to perform a "Black psychic conversion," a defiant re-evaluation of the self that is free of American racist values. West argues convincingly that it is this anger...
McKissic addressed the current debate aboutwhether to call people of African descent Black,African-American or Negro...
...more we become aware that under our civilised facade we could be just as bad. Not that any of us could possibly do such a thing: most, I hope, could not live with the memory of inflicting physical pain on anybody. But at the end of the long descent from nebulous fairytale fears, we arrive at the point of fear of oneself, of terror about what, just possibly and terribly, one could become. And so the mirror lies in wait for all of us. To end in a whirl of pretence, Omar Khayyam foresaw it: "I sent my Soul through...
OVER AND OVER, IN ENGLISH, JAPANESE AND KOREAN, the voice on the passenger- cabin intercom repeated, "Urgent descent. Fasten seat belts. Put on masks." Those chilling words and others from the "black box" voice recorder, recovered from the wreckage of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, put to rest the nine-year-old question of whether the 269 passengers died instantly after Soviet fighters shot them out of the sky on Sept. 1, 1983. The crew's response to the disaster provided further evidence that they had no idea they had been attacked by air-to-air missiles. The transcripts...