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...screeching volume--punk, What is called "new wave," though, is hardly new at all. The punk movement was simply a case of fashion catching up to where the fringe movements of art had been for years. If we look back as far as the 1910s, we can see a distinct and sometimes exact precursor of the punks' nihilism in a group called the Dada. What is new about the punks is that they're not artists or intellectuals. Instead, they're ordinary, often suburban kids, who have no real idea what they're unhappy about--they know only that they...
...what they want," he said, "in Geraldine Ferraro; the South got what it wants in Bert Lance. What did you get?-you ain't got nothing!" He made his demands sharp: that the Democratic Party in the South establish in each of the old Confederate states one distinct district where a black Congressman would be nominated and, with the support of the party, be elected. In other words: not participation by individual merit but group participation with rewards shared by the numbers of race. He ran this course into the campaign: blacks must wait for Jesse's "signal...
They're as different as crimson and blue, as distinct as Cambridge and New Haven. And when it comes to coaching football. Harvard's Joe Restic and yale's Carm Cozza are as different as-well, Jone Restic and Carm Cozza...
...narrators themselves from a sixteen-year old chemistry students to a middle-aged fraternity housemother, each struggle to discover or regain, their distinct identify, Ultimately, they seize upon the same potential solution--conscious identification with a famous name. (For John Dillinger, his own name.) Through this reflected or retracted glory they try to escape the squalled nature of their own lives. A nameless drama teacher dreams of the time when she taught James Dean "to kiss... and to die." A young woman writes to her missionary lover missing in China (John Birch) without hope of a reply. She writes...
...invited to Harvard by the Law School's Racially Motivated Violence Project, pointed out that the Church's role is "distinct" from that of the state...