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...actually can relate to the pompous professor. My senior year in high school, I wrote an essay on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in which I boldly asserted that one of the novel's characters, Ras the Exhorter, was based on the real-life black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. I remember feeling the smug self-satisfaction that comes with crafting (what I thought was) an original academic argument. I excerpted the essay on my Harvard application. I wondered--only half in jest--whether it was publishable...
...based on Marcus Garvey?" they asked. So much for my original thesis...
Ellison responded directly. "No...No conscious reference to Garvey is intended...
...drugged but most drank something and cigarette smoking was an acceptable social activity. Adult-like sex was now quite available as well and there was much discussion about "free love," communal living, black separatist states and even revisiting the "back to Africa" vision of Paul Cuffe and Marcus Mosiah Garvey. I seemed to focus on being sure that I was making my own and not peer-pressured decisions about who I wanted...
Hollywood's interest in a cause often means Big Money. A benefit movie premiere can raise up to $350,000 in a single night. Still, as Starbright managing director Chris Garvey notes, "Our board members give more than their money and Rolodexes. They relish the hands-on experience of dealing with children in hospitals...