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Wilson joined NASA in 1996 and flew her first mission a decade later. She is the second African-American woman to ever fly in space...
...Movement and Meaning: Dance Culture, and Identity in the 20th Century”—which also seeks to balance academic and creative approaches toward a given artform—students spent the first half of every seminar practicing movement exercises...
Spanning over 2,000 manuscript pages and four decades of work, the novel’s incompleteness does not undermine the masterful and comprehensive expression of an author whose first novel alone, “Invisible Man,” was enough to vault him into 20th century literary canon. Like “Invisible Man,” Ellison’s unfinished novel addresses the construction of personal, racial, and national identities. The sheer number of voices represented makes this second effort a Faulknerian pinwheel of shifting perspectives. In his notes, Ellison explains that he was attempting...
Solomon is a songwriter, and on Wilson’s first flight into space, Wilson brought along a copy of one of Solomon’s CDs and took a photograph of it floating in the shuttle, Solomon said...
...think first half we came out and we played the sort of game that we’ve been trying to play this entire season,” freshman Danielle Tetreault said...