Word: existing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Twymon, 14, shipped into white Charlestown, cannot abide the abuse and loneliness, and her bright academic future dims. In the city's atmosphere of strife, her brother Frederick backslides into crime. Billy and Lisa McGoff become disruptive students at Charlestown High because they believe the institution will cease to exist once "TLWC"--The Last White Class--enters its senior year. Brad Diver loses his opportunity to ^ attend an unstructured, experimental elementary school when busing transforms its student body and curriculum...
...long the process takes and however peacefully or violently it develops, blacks in South Africa are bound to achieve equality and destroy the apartheid system. When that time comes, it is important that they be prepared to take full advantage of their opportunity for self-determination. Critical needs will exist for able men and women with advanced training. As a result, Harvard and other American universities have a chance to make a long-term contribution by helping to compensate for the lack of educational opportunities available to blacks under the apartheid regime...
...weekend and an opportunity to 1)unpack 2)retrieve all stored articles from basements of either dorms in the Yard, the Union, or the house 3)construct a living environment. Very simply, the above, necessary activities are time consuming, and during a regular school day this time does not exist. Therefore, if a student must wait until the first weekend, he or she must live under hindering circumstances and still perform to the academic standards that Harvard demands. I am sure I do not need to add that this would be very, very difficult and is surely a callous demand...
Jewett said he would like to see ongoing participation by administrators from the early stages of production, and he said he would hope they could soon reach an agreement on the ground rules governing editorial control of the guide. Apparently no such rules exist...
...young black men, violence can become a warped form of self-assertion, a kind of "I kill, therefore I am." Snuffing out another life perversely affirms their own. Almost 40 years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man about violence as a way for black men to assert their existence to themselves: "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish...