Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not like to be compared with earlier thinkers of any stripe, but her beliefs are not too far from the 18th century philosophers who held that if every man were out for himself, society would ultimately benefit. She has long been indignant over the consistent fire she has drawn from hostile critics, who view her as an impractical, closed-minded ideologue rather than a serious philosopher...
...appointments did not comply with a recommendation made last December by the Committee to Establish the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, calling for a board "drawn from the Harvard faculty, from scholars in the field of Afro-American studies and from the Black American community...
...first novel, and a good one. But Bromell should go on to do better work. As with many things that are apprehended "like that", that click in your mind, the book can be disappointing to analyze. It should be read through, one story at a time, when you feel drawn by its atmosphere of vague, reassuring calm. Bromell resolves the problems of experience, power and human relationships in suggestive ways, but both his statement and his resolution are limited. There is a gentility to the selection of people, places and sentiments that can make the book seem lightweight. Not everyone...
...culminating scene, when the "dream has become a nightmare," the characters stand like zombies on a surrealistic landscape and address the audience directly. When Popsy, deftly played by John Horton, delivers his final three-page long "sermon," the effect is spell-binding and the audience itself is drawn into an almost trance-like state...
...proclamation deposing Haile Selassie also suspended the Ethiopian constitution, banned strikes and antimilitary demonstrations and dissolved Parliament. The coordinating committee declared that a provisional military administration would rule until there are free democratic elections (no date was set) and a new constitution is drawn up to provide for-among other things -freedom of speech, land reform and the separation of church and state. Ethiopia's new leaders said that they planned to summon home from Geneva Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 57, Haile Selassie's son, and anoint him as Ethiopia's King (significantly, not Emperor). Wossen...