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Thirty years ago, it would have been big news that Battle is black. Today it is hardly worth mentioning, since talented black women singers are readily accepted at opera's highest levels. The soprano rarely discusses race. Says she: "I don't think I have an ax to grind on that issue...
...they didn't stay tied for long. Bridgton took the opening kick-off of the second half and proceded to grind out a long drive...
...their own group in thought, work or morals." By 1932 little had changed in his view. When addressing the graduating class of Howard University, DuBois charged that college-educated, elite Blacks were "on average untouched by real culture," and were at best "indifferent to scholarship and the hard grind of study and research." He concluded his address on a discouraging and, it seems, prophetically accurate note, commenting that in our colleges we were witnessing "a growing mass of stupidity and ignorence." As is well known, sociologist E. Franklin Frazier also made this point repeatedly in his own work. Fifty-three...
...plates carrying two continental masses collide, for example, the crust buckles, creating craggy mountain ranges like the Himalayas. If they grind past each other, as the Pacific and North American plates do under California's San Andreas fault, friction locks them together. Every so often, abrupt slippages occur and the earth around them shudders in what geologists call strike-slip quakes. Still another kind of tectonic phenomenon, the meeting of an oceanic and a continental plate, is responsible for the Mexican disaster...
Instead, imagine 1000-plus of your favorite acquaintances locking arms in sweaty embrace, swilling impotent potables like apple juice and introducing themselves in the darkness of a converted dining hall to the bump and grind of dance music...