Word: garvey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marcus Garvey b) W.E.B. Du Bois c) Jesse Jackson d) Martin Luther King...
There are those who started a movement or hitched their wagon to an idea that never quite panned out. Or the idea succeeded, but it's one that makes us uncomfortable. Chiang Kai-shek was a contender for a billion people's loyalty but played his cards wrong. Marcus Garvey preached racial separatism and opposed interracial marriage; his ideas seem almost quaint now. Whether Hugh Hefner was a pioneer of the sexual revolution or just piggybacked on it is impossible to know, but in the age of AIDS and poverty caused by out-of-wedlock births, his hedonism-without-tears...
BOSTON--At 7 a.m. yesterday morning Shay Allen was already outside the polls at the Marcus Garvey Garden School, waiving her Harshbarger/Tolman sign and handing out little yellow lists of Democratic candifates...
What bothered me more than my destroyed thesis, however, was a larger question: What was my scholarship worth? Sure, I had amply demonstrated that similarities exist between Ras and Garvey, but the causal link had been shattered by the only guy who had a right to do so--the author himself. I was wrong, and my paper was worthless...
...find the "any interpretation is valid" argument convincing. There are instances when, as Woody Allen memorably shows us, we simply are wrong. I recognize, of course, that Ellison didn't reject my argument in the way McLuhan rejected the professor's; while "no conscious reference to Garvey" may have been intended, Ellison did considerately leave the realm of his unconscious wide open to academic scrutiny. Unfortunately, I'm no psychoanalyst...