Word: julians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollar fetched 8.06 French francs at the start of the week, the highest rate in more than 60 years, and also commanded 2.68 deutsche marks, a nine-year high. "The dollar's bandwagon was rolling at such a speed that it seemed that nothing could stop it," said Julian Snyder, editor of a newsletter that follows international money markets...
...fabulous," says California Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. "It's a big plus." Privately, however, many Democrats, including black politicians, are ambivalent at best. "I can't see any benefit to be derived from a black candidacy," says Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. "If I could, I'd be persuaded...
...Julian Orenstein...
Gore Vidal's novels, plays and essays can be divided roughly into three areas of animosity. The first is the author's belief that Western civilization erred when it abandoned pagan humanism for the stern, heterosexual authority of the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions...
...threatening since Black students, "can join without buying an ideology," says Gomes. A member of Diaspora agrees, saying, "We don't tell anyone they're politically incorrect" In addition, these more conservative--and often more affluent--Black students have formed new types of groups such as the Percy C. Julian Society, a Black pre-med support group, and intercollegiate Black fraternities and sororities. By the late 1970s, Gomes explains, "diversity within the Black community meant that not everyone thought they had to take a loyalty oath to the BSA." Whereas it was once a fair assumption that Black students wanted...