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...change of attitudes arises from some experiences common to the current generation, the first to come of age after the civil rights battles of the '60s and '70s. Most parents of today's undergraduates remember Freedom Summer and the Selma march, but somehow they have failed to impart the lessons to their children. When confronted with the name of Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, for example, one white student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst innocently asked her professor, "Who is this Malcolm the Tenth?" Says Daniel Levitas, executive director of the Atlanta-based Center for Democratic Renewal...
Actually, Chamorro's presidential style will resemble that of her long- distance admirer. Like Ronald Reagan, Chamorro holds deeply ingrained if unrefined notions of what she wants to accomplish. She has demonstrated an ability to impart those aspirations to the populace, and she knows how to delegate authority to more able lieutenants...
...next day Gorbachev was outwardly composed as he delivered his opening address, but participants detected a quaver of tension in his voice. It was not his purpose, he said, "to dramatize the situation and impart a tragic character" to the fateful decisions facing the plenum, but "the party will be able to fulfill its mission as a political vanguard only if it drastically restructures itself, masters the art of political work in present conditions and succeeds in cooperating with all forces committed to perestroika." No burst of thunderous applause greeted the end of his hour-long speech. After enduring...
Educational success starts at home; it starts with the vision of the good life that parents impart to their children. Only when a child understands early on that the good life is impossible without stretching one's mind and pursuing knowledge to the fullest extent of one's abilities--only then will our country have a chance to remain a leading political, cultural and economic force of the next century...
...attractive idea lurks at the center of this movie: evoke the glamorous, dangerous spirit of after-hours Harlem in the 1930s and do it in the style of a studio-bound gangster film of the time, in which sets, costumes, lighting all impart a dreamily enhancing air to reality. Implicit in this notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd...