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...evaluating the artistic works of black people which reflect the special character and imperatives of black experiences." This was an important movement which attempted to excoriate the whiteness that blackened out souls and to fashion new ideals and idols of beauty. More importantly, the Movement sought to articulate the fact that Afro-American peoples were beautiful and capable of creating beautiful artifacts...
...excoriation of whiteness was not a thing to sneer at. In the portals of ivy, Afro-American literature was not a subject to be studied or even understood. After all, what did Afro-Americans know about versification, the strophe or the periphrase? How else could one explain the fact that The American Tradition in Literature by Bradley, Beatty and Long, one of the standard texts used in American colleges during the 1960's, devoted only two-and-one-half of its 1734 pages to Afro-American literature...
...today that we do not need Afro-American literature courses, that the quality of Afro-American literature cannot be compared with that of Euro-American literature, and further, that if a man decides to teach the literature of his people, he is not a serious scholar. That in fact if he were a serious scholar he would teach and study the works of Pirandello or Beckett, Shakespeare or Dante, Milton or Chaucer...
...there any empirical or historical evidence proving the "crowding out" theory of Milton Friedman. In fact, the historical experience of pre-war Japan, where rapid growth was accompanied by far greater deficits for defense purposes, shows that sufficient capital, foreign or domestic, will be available where the opportunity is great. There are billions of oil dollars in European banks eagerly seeking investment opportunity, and with the declining value of the dollar, they can be invested nowhere more profitably than in the United States. As any real estate broker could tell you, to some extent they are. Nevertheless, the second greatest...
...more serious objection: if a woman thinks that she is not pregnant when, in fact, she is, she may delay going to a physician. Such procrastination can be particularly dangerous in tubal pregnancies, which require early medical attention because the fallopian tube can rupture and possibly cause death...