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...nearly impossible for anorganization whose typical members were young,full-time students with a disdain for thetrappings of capitalism to become a fundraisingpowerhouse...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Student Group Defined the Decade | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...boys squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness of her siblings and the liveliness of city street life. In the end, as if to make up for missed dramatic opportunities, Carolyn Carmichael is suddenly stricken with an undefined terminal illness. But fear, grief, loss -- the powerful emotions bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Tree Strives in Brooklyn | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...difficult to formulate arguments against publications that are thrown back out of the room in disdain. Unless we all keep thinking about the issues and rethinking our biases, and (as Lat says) taking action, we'll find that we've lost the capacity to defend our ideas, and instead become entrenched in superstition. Inie Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat's Lack of Substance Typifies Conservatives More Than Liberals | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

...nearly impossible for anorganization whose typical members were young,full-time students with a disdain for thetrappings of capitalism to become a fundraisingpowerhouse...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Student Group Defined the Decade | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

...nearly impossible for anorganization whose typical members were young,full-time students with a disdain for thetrappings of capitalism to become a fundraisingpowerhouse...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Then as Now, Students Took On ROTC | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

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