Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Errol T. Louis, in his recent editorial piece "The Darker Side," has certainly moderated his anti-American vituperation from the levels reached in some of the articles of his which appeared last year in What Is To Be Done? This time, in an admirable display of self-restraint, he limits himself to the charge that Blacks in this country and elsewhere are "as a group, getting beat in the head by various American institutions, chief among them the United States government." Louis is, of course, being figurative; we Blacks have not been in serious danger of random head-beating...
Reagan does not display the towering ego or consuming ambition that has driven other Presidents. But the White House does fill a personal need of another sort...
...weakest: "Time and tide can never sever/ Those whom love has bound forever" serves to remind the reader that Coward grew up in the Edwardian heyday. But such songs as I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and A Room with a View display the author's unique amalgam of anticipation and nostalgia ("Time may he heavy between,/ But what has been/ Is past forgetting...
...Leon Trotsky's personal papers, and original works by William and Henry James, James Joyce, Alexander Pope, and many more. One of Houghton's lesser known attributes is its autograph collection; a wall of well-known signatures is featured in the Houghton Collection-but not open for public display...
...fables that the young au thor's gifts are best displayed, as if confinement had forced her to think in brief, ironic parables. In Blurry, the Explorer, a bear cub ventures into a human city and becomes the intimate - and the quarry -of dogs, cars and people. At last he re turns to his mother. "I wanted to discover the world," he explains. "And did you discover it?" "No, no ... not really; you see, I couldn't find it!" In Eve's Dream, plants display a variety of personalities, as they do in the tales of Andersen...