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...black experience in America '71 is that of historical awakening. Black Studies is one form that this process throws on for a fitting. The history of the black peoples allows for many awakenings: we can cast our gaze on specific events and time periods out of the totality of our existence and relate to them holistically; we can take our souls into the past and walk through the "hallowed halls of Harvard" and out of them into the U. S. A. of the late nineteenth century, as Martin R. Delany, William Monroe Trotter, or W. E. B. DuBois...
Everyone who was brought up in Jersey City must feel in his prejudiced but knowing heart, as I do, that the charges are absolutely true. Why, this has been going on for 50 years! But for John V. and the rest to stand in the public gaze, for the district attorney to promise "scores of witnesses, thousands of pages of testimony" against them-that is what shocks the Jersey City soul. Who talked...
...tries to rout his spooks with an anecdotal army of distant relatives. In sum, they create something more haunting than their individual parts. Just before Home's curtain falls, the two men stand apart to the right and left of the stage. In a vise of silence, they gaze sightlessly out at the ever-dimming light. That moment forms an ineradicably poignant image of man's homeless...
...question, the guy was different. A drawly, vaguely rural voice that started somewhere way back in his throat and almost didn't make it past his lips; a quizzical, unblinking gaze that tended to make other eyes turn away in embarrassment; a perfect, foot-wide smile that flashed on and off like the Eddystone Light. The casting director asked a few uneasy questions, paused, then blurted: "I don't know what we'd ever use you for, but if we need you, we'll need you very badly...
...linebacker Gary Farneti, who has been dressing under Marinaro's confident, boyish gaze taped on his locker door, made eight tackles and knocked down a key pass...