Word: gwendolyn
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...dispute, even though she satisfies all the demands of political correctness. At 40 Dove is the youngest person, second woman (after Mona Van Duyn) and first African-American to be chosen as poet laureate since the position was created eight years ago. "She was the absolutely perfect choice," says Gwendolyn Brooks, the only other black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. "She can be brightly irreverent, carefully humorous and mercilessly inclusive. She has it in her to become a great poet...
According to Lecturer on Biology Gwendolyn A. Freyd, the number of students in Biological Sciences 1 increased by approximately 60 this term...
Rita Dove, who after Gwendolyn Brooks was only the second African-American to win the Pulitzer prize in poetry, has attracted considerable attention with the publication of her first novel Through the Ivory Gate...
...black person, even with evidence against you, and get away with it." She vows to tell the children she takes care of, "You are black; the policeman is an enemy. When you see the police officer, go away because no matter what you do you are guilty." Gwendolyn Young, executive director of the Louisville and Jefferson County Human Relations Commission in Kentucky, declared to a hundred people at a protest rally in Louisville that "in America black life is meaningless and black rights do not exist." To many blacks, the fact that the not-guilty verdicts were handed down...
...Riegle is advised by Tom Green, who represented retired Major General Richard Secord after Iran-contra and White House aide Robert Mardian during Watergate. Lawyer Plato Cacheris, who worked for both Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell and Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall, is at the side of Gwendolyn Van Paaschen, an aide to Senator John McCain...