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...formal education and natural eloquence made him an obvious spokesman for the black community. He entered into a bitter dispute with Booker T. Washington, who felt that blacks should forego political and social equality and instead concentrate their efforts upon the development of technical skills...
...hardly unanimous, I can not be convinced that meatless days will be so anxiously awaited. During that fast, many persons who had foregone Harvard food appeared shortly afterward in Elsie's and other Square restaurants; they were not really concerned enough about the world food problem to even forego one meal. I believe that at the very most one quarter of the school actually fasted...
Many ski shops still have large inventories of last year's models--still guaranteed and unused--and these provide the opportunity for the best savings, if one is content to forego the dubious distinction of having the "very latest." Look for name brand equipment which is marked way off the list price and choose the best discount. This can easily be done by shopping the ski shop advertisements in the Boston papers...
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN are among the most important of the minor pleasures of life, and Harvard would be a spiritually poorer place without its G & S society. Like any company devoted to performing a canon of works over and over, some years it must forego the juiciest operas and stick with the second-rate. But The Mikado (even if it's not quite as good as Patience) is the traditional favorite, the old chestnut by which the rest are judged. Its production is like Hamlet at Stratford or Casablanca at the Brattle Square. This Mikado, though, is hardly a high...
Running simultaneously with their struggle to preserve water in the summer drought is the two brothers' inner struggle for the same woman. Bahar (Hulya Kocygigit) loves Hassan and is even willing to forego the man's traditional dowry payment to marry him. Ossman wants Bahar, not only for his own gratification but for work in his fields. Once Hassan is in jail, Ossman forces himself on Bahar. The film moves slowly towards the brothers' inevitable face-off and an abrupt, violent denoument...