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...tradition begun by that distant ancestor Kunte Kinte, each child in the successive generations in Haley's family was told the family history, which by Haley's time had been pared down considerably. He remembers his grandmother referring to their ancestor, "the African," who called the banjo "ko," the river "Kamby Bolongo," and who was out chopping wood for a drum at the age of 16 when four white slave traders kidnapped him and brought him to the United States...
Football star Jim Curry continues to exist as a non-athletic and possibly a non-academic entity at this university right now, and aside from a few thousand self-appointed experts (who have friends who know people who are close to distant relatives of the aforementioned party), no one with official stature is at liberty to discuss the exact details of the mess Curry...
...fall term of academic year 1975-1976 marked the beginning of a very large and concentrated offensive by various campus groups for democratic rights. While Harvard has been the site of previous struggles for democratic rights, the mass character of this latest struggle was evident even to the most distant observer...
...trip. Through the not ever steamy window of her curiosity we soon see that this couple's existence is no bed of French lillies, either. 'Grown up for Ann, the late thirtiesh godmother, translates into dyed hair, bulging thighs, chain-smoking, an abandoned child in the distant past and a psychological block against bearing another one ever since. 'Gaining status and respectability' for the godfather, Jean, means becoming so broad-boned and stern-faced, so outwardly tailored to a style of bureaucratic modishness, that when he tries to behave like a kid again he comes off looking like a fool...
...week progressed, however, the standard stump speech became laced with Carterisms. At a Democratic Party rally in Albuquerque, Mondale urged a new Government "close to the values we have learned in church." He added: "Washington seems distant, isolated, out of touch with the American people." Touring a 1,700-acre farm in Missouri, he described the family farm as "our most sacred institution" and blamed farmers' problems with some Government programs on "unknown, unelected, faceless bureaucrats...