Word: harriet
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...wrote one member of the class of 1943. This advice was followed in spades. The 1943 oral histories and questionnaires were answered by most of the class, and this mass of information was summarized by Harriet Belin, Ruth Helman, and Rita Shea. It forms a good picture of the young women who came to Cambridge to go to college 50 years...
Carby, addressing more than 70 gathered at Emerson Hall in the last of the three W.E.B. Dullois Lectures, drew on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the recent Lawrence Kasdan film "Grand Canyon" as examples of works by whites intended to preserve their social position, not to promote true racial equality...
...Dirty Harriet Makes...
...POINT OF NO RETURN. It's a remake of an unimprovably stylish, very entertaining thriller -- La Femme Nikita -- that was released just two years ago. But hey, that was in French. Why not let people who hate subtitles in on the fun? Bridget Fonda is a sort of Dirty Harriet, a reprieved murderer turned into an elegant assassin by a mysterious government agency. She and her handler (Gabriel Byrne) fall into unconsummated love. She sublimates with gunplay while growing wistful for normality. John Badham's film seems to have more firepower and slightly softer edges than the original...
Other points include the residences of Lewis and Milton Clarke, William Wells Brown, John J. Fatal, Harriet Jacobs, Lunsford Lane, Patrick H. Raymond and Joshua Bowen Smith, all associated with the abolition, emancipation, and reconstruction movements...