Word: kingly
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...passages in your book talks about the anime movie Dragon Ball Z and how it represents the journey of the black man in America. And it struck me because in Inglourious Basterds, there's a scene about how King Kong represents the plight of the black man in America. Is there another movie or book or piece of art that you think represents what African Americans have had to go through? Tarantino and I agree on King Kong. I'll give you another movie: John Carpenter's They Live. That's perfect for our times right now. That's where...
...arrival in the “New World” marks the dawn of an era of European expansion and exploitation, which devastated Native Americans and other indigenous populations. And considering that Columbus Day is the only American national holiday (aside from January’s Martin Luther King, Jr. ,Day) still to bear the name of a single and, at least from the perspective of United States history, not entirely germane individual, its celebration is even more of an anachronism that ought to be replaced...
...night I got an e-mail back from Michael B. King ’79, one of the alumni I had asked to talk about the team. He wrote, “Sure! My schedule is a bit choppy this week (I am traveling to Philly tomorrow evening), but we should be able to make something work.” Soon I get another e-mail from someone I had not contacted, John M. Bredehoft ’80, who had been debate partners with Mike when they were back in college. Because the e-mails...
They were debate partners at Harvard when King was a senior and Bredehoft was a junior, and that year, in 1979, they won the National Debate Tournament. King was writing to me as he was traveling to Philadelphia, and he took a break during the flight. When he got back to the computer he said, “I see that in the interim John has responded, and I will resist reading.” At times, in the middle of their narratives, they would ask questions of each other, checking that their facts were accurate...
...vast, feathered, horned, clawed, beaked and definitely wild - irrational and dangerous, even when showing affection - and Jonze uses their threatening bulk as well as their capacity for cruelty to remind us that Max's taming of them is only temporary. For any child, it is near impossible to stay king of anything, even in fantasy. (Read "Box-Office Weekend: Mighty Meatballs...