Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Dardis recounts Fitzgerald's early history, he alleges that his father Edward Fitzgerald was also an alcoholic. He never supports this allegation, but that does not seem to matter to him. In reference to an event in 1908, he glibly writes...
...long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. But everywhere I went in the world where there were black people, somebody said, What about the blacks and Asians? What do you think about the blacks and the Mexicans? Or, in New York at one time, blacks and Puerto Ricans? The only common denominator is blacks...
...Jackson's remarks got me thinking about two recent events relating to Black students at Harvard. One event, the publication by York Eggleston and the Freshman Black Table of their second annual magazine Outlook, pleased me immensely. The other event, a delegation of Black undergraduates to Dean of the College Archie C. Epps' office requesting the legalization at Harvard of Greek-letter fraternities, saddened...
...second event brought back memories of battles I had with Black fraternities during my undergraduate days at one of the Black colleges (Lincoln University, Penn.)--battles over their pathetic consumerist and hedonist values, as well as their indifference to the budding civil rights activism in the early 1950s...
...find them doing it on the same stage, with a Harvard professor sitting quietly by in an upholstered leather armchair, is a once-in-a-lifetime event...