Word: established
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...need for a people to have a home. It is almost impossible for Jews to truly call themselves at home in any country. This is true today as it was over the past 3,000 years. Jewish inter-marriage in this country is another attempt of Jews to establish for themselves a place to truly call home, to allow them to be fully integrated into American society. But which of these two solutions, intermarriage or Israel, allows for both a strengthening of Jewish culture as well as providing a home? Only Israel...
...university, change is often controlled by money. And donors to Harvard have the ability to specify exactly where their donation may go. Even if Knowles is opposed to tenuring a professor who specializes in the study of ethnicity, he would not likely turn down a donation earmarked specifically to establish a chair in ethnic studies...
...money specifically for ethnic studies, or put an advertisement in Harvard Magazine, which is distributed to all alumni. Perhaps students could get one of their Faculty supporters, such as Skip Gates, to write an article in the magazine or a letter to alumni asking them to donate money to establish a professorship in ethnic studies...
...will be difficult to accomplish and will require a lot of work on the part of those activists who want to increase Harvard's commitment to the study of ethnicity. But I believe each of these steps is necessary for Harvard to further the study of ethnicity and to establish the permanent study of ethnicity at this University...
John Lee Hooker doesn't just sing the blues, and he doesn't just play the blues on his guitar. He is the blues. Along with a handful of American musicians, such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bessie Smith and a few others, Hooker helped establish in the cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. When Hooker sings, it's with an ocean-deep voice that grumbles and growls and sometimes soothes; his guitar playing has a wise, twangy authority...