Word: displays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This, of course, is simply self-serving mythmaking on the part of today's blacks at white colleges, many of whom do not display the discipline and seriousness toward achievement and toward exploiting success-patterns at Harvard and elsewhere on a scale comparabale to the pre-1960s blacks at white schools. Such myth-makiing (based upon no hard evidence about the occupational and mobility patterns of yesterday's graduates of Harvard) serves the unfortunate function of shielding black students from the no-win implications of their black solidarity isolation--especially their isolation from broad-guaged interactions with their white peers...
After taking his place in a sales booth in the permanent U.S. trade center in Tokyo, Robert Yardley, a sales executive with the middle-size Warwick, R.I., toolmaking firm Leesona Corp., was puzzled by two Japanese who came and stood at his display but had no interest whatsoever in the machinery. When Yardley inquired why they had come, one of the men pulled out a letter and said, "We are only here for this reason." The letter, Yardley deduced, was from one of the big trading companies, which had ordered his smaller firm to put in an appearance...
Wouk is still at his best when his feet are firmly astride a swaying deck: the battles at sea provide the novel's swiftest and most knowing passages. Yet for all the exhilaration his warriors display in combat, Wouk knows the bitter price of valor. Here and there he lectures too self-consciously. But even as a preacher the author can be effective. Through the voice of Pug, Wouk writes that the world's destiny rests on a pathetically simple hope: "Most people, even the most fanatical and boneheaded Marxists, even the craziest nationalists and revolution aries, love...
Even the lightest children's tales display Singer's sources: the Bible, mystic writings of Jewish cabala, Tolstoy and Chekhov. "I never forget," he maintains, "that I am only a storyteller." This insistence on the unities of plot and form has made Singer the greatest living 19th century writer and perhaps the only Nobel prizewinner with no pretensions whatever. The lively old figure, with eyes the color of the Israeli flag, dressed as for a formal walk on Warsaw's main street in 1928, has become a familiar one to shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West...
...museum doesn't have it, or can't borrow it, it can't show it and so the exhibit must display two rather unsatisfying Robert Motherwell collages. The Fogg sadly lacks any high-calibre Motherwell canvases, one of which, perhaps something from his "Elegy" or "Open" series, would have enhanced the exhibit immeasurably...