Word: familiarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These illustrious titles can also be a bit problematic; I remember earlier this year trying to explain to an interviewer not familiar with the Harvard system what was meant by "Editor, Harvard Crimson...
...TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR by Alice Walker...
...Temple of My Familiar is almost all talk -- monologues and dialogues, chiefly by and among black women. The skeletal plot is an excuse to get the conversations going. Suwelo, a black professor of American history, travels from his California home to attend an uncle's funeral in Baltimore and to dispose of the house that comes as his inheritance. Suwelo is grateful for the respite provided by this visit; his wife Fanny (the granddaughter of Miss Celie, the heroine of The Color Purple) has discovered feminism and wants a divorce. It is not that she has stopped loving...
...familiar with the adage that you shouldn't fix anything unless it's broken. This is not a broken high school," McLaurin said...
...ritual is eerily familiar. A public figure under fire for wrongdoing rises to defend himself, proclaiming his honesty, years of service and adherence to the rules. Last Thursday it was Jim Wright's turn before the TV cameras. The House Speaker's passionate statement was reminiscent of other notable political apologias: Richard Nixon's I-am-not-a-crook, Ed Meese's They-did-not-indict-me and, most recently, John Tower's I-am-a-man-of-some- discipline. Like the others, Wright's performance only emphasized how much trouble...