Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Reeves's participation in protest politics was more than a passing foray, his community work was more time consuming and more gratifying. But campus activists today, Reeves says, seem to focus on the bigger issues...
Says White: "As a black reporter specializing in black America, I had long been aware of the plague of black-on-black homicide in the nation's ghettos. But it took two incidents to focus the story. One was the brutal murder in Chicago last year of a black high school basketball star, Ben Wilson, by two youths who seemed to have no motive at all. The other was the incredible burst of support from black New Yorkers for Bernhard Goetz, the white subway vigilante. He was a lightning rod for the fears that many blacks have of their...
...verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to % suffer. I signify all three." What Grant said about his dying was true of his life. It was only as a verb, that is, as a warrior, that he found focus. Grant had an animal sense of moment and motion. Mary Lincoln thought for a time during the siege of Richmond that Grant was a mere "butcher," and most of the North agreed. But he was a far better soldier than that. He could march strategies across a landscape...
Though Reeves's participation in protest politics was more than a passing foray, his community work was more time consuming and more gratifying. But campus activists today, Reeves says, seem to focus on the bigger issues...
...Dixon, it comes down to choosing where she will spend her limited time and energy. Dixon says she finds it ironic that campus liberals focus on international civil rights issues like apartheid in South Africa while ignoring civil rights issues in the United States. "People have been lulled into believing that things have changed a lot [in the U.S.]. On the surface it is that way, but I don't think that's necessarily true. Here are people fighting about a cause 50,000 miles away when there are problems next door...