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...novelist's other recurrent theme is race. But as a white American writing about blacks, a trick managed by Faulkner and few others, Banks seems too carefully respectful, an earnest '60s liberal. When Owen Brown realizes that he regards a black farmer as an equal but not wholeheartedly as a friend, his self-conscious queasiness seems oddly modern. Like Owen, the author has often been confounded by his good intentions. When Bob Dubois migrates to Florida in Continental Drift and has a love affair with a beautiful black woman, Banks sets aside his gritty naturalism, and that...
With its ever increasing penchant for mawkish soap opera and garish costuming (and no one is a bigger culprit here than Kulik), figure skating has become camp spectacle. Perhaps as a corrective, the judges of the men's competition sent the message that skating is indeed still an earnest sport where fierce athleticism matters. In other words, yes, the much discussed quadruple jump counts. Of the top medal contenders, only two skaters, Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, also a Russian, attempted one, and only Kulik landed his: a perfectly executed quadruple toe loop...
McLaughlin is intent on graduating with the class of '98, which means that he cannot turn his attention to soccer in earnest until early June...
...woman whose name is listed as a contact on the poster. Lauralee confirms that she and Danielle A. Hobeika '01 are in fact trying to pull together a club for women wrestlers. But right away she makes it clear that her commitment to wrestling is nothing if not earnest...
Finally, professors can hit the ground running. Under the shopping days system, instructors in their first official class meeting can begin lecturing on the subject matter in earnest. The shopping days meetings fulfill the functions of general introduction and discussion of the syllabus...