Word: known
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dostoyevsky and B.F. Skinner. "I'm really a loving and caring person," he protests. "I hunger for knowledge. My pain and suffering have stroked my ability to be intellectual. If the system wasn't so quick to incarcerate me as a child, I could have become a well-known attorney. I could have been a Senator...
...thousands of Boston area residents. The Theta Iota Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. was cited as being the chapter of the year for their community service efforts which included a mentoring program at Cambridge Rindge and Latin. Our commitment does not end there. Black Greeks are also known for their involvement in campus politics and activities. Members of Black fraternities and sororities include the president of the Freshman Black Table, the organizer of the intercollegiate ethnic conference earlier this year, the director of the Afro-American cultural center, and others who have devoted extensive amounts of time...
...grandparents should not have to give to Harvard because it is Harvard. Everything The Name is known for is what kept them out--the old-time prestige, the Puritanical roots, the grooming ground for the white Protestant male power elite...
...Black people have always known that. We've had to distinguish among you because our lives depended on it. I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons...
...beginning was mainline Protestantism. At Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, and for 3 1/2 centuries thereafter, the denominations known today by that label defined the spiritual and moral ethos of the U.S. These prominent Wasp bastions nurtured the founders, imparting to them notions of republican government and individual freedom. Dominating American Protestantism, these churches shaped virtually every aspect of an evolving nation: its pioneering colleges, its 19th century novels of sin and rectitude, its capitalist ethic of striving and saving, and a world-conquering spirit that was shared by missionaries and entrepreneurs alike. Mainliners were at the forefront of social crusades...