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Following such estimable models as The Civil War and Eyes on the Prize, The Promised Land (produced by Anthony Geffen and based on the critically acclaimed 1991 book by Nicholas Lemann) recounts this social history with understated narration (by Morgan Freeman), evocative music (blues and gospel) and the plainspoken words of people who lived through it. They are mostly anonymous folks, free of sanctimony or self-importance. People like Uless Carter, a bespectacled, Mississippi-born minister, who reminisces with the sweet-tempered grace of a character in a John Ford western. Or James Hinton, one of 22 children of Alabama...
Based on the critically acclaimed book by Nicholas Lemann, thisfive-part documentary series-- airing Sunday, Monday through Wednesday and Saturday on the Discovery Channel (check local listings) -- is about the 1950s black migration from the oppressive conditions of the Mississippi Delta to the then-booming city of Chicago.TIME critic Richard Zoglinsays the understated narration by Morgan Freeman, evocative music and plainspoken words of people who lived through it, make it a must-see. Its "unhurried gravity is something close to poetry," Zoglin says...
Such frippery is superflous at the MCZ--the animals steal the show. Roommates Bonnie A. Pelly '96 and Bethany M. Lemann '96 came to the museum for a Biological Sciences 2 lab, and returned to check out the rest of the museum. "I liked the sperm whale's pelvic bones and the big dinosaur fossil. I love evolution. I love dolphins. I love primates," gushed Lemann...
...Times' announcements, while useful for discouraging bigamists, perform other functions. A brisk exegesis, like a successful archeological dig, yields a wealth of information about American culture. The announcements trumpet the spawning and proliferation of a new class, the meritocracy, which journalist Nicholas Lemann defines as "a national personnel system that uses higher education to sort and slot a substantial portion of the population...
...dowry system is alive and well. Instead of money or parcels of land, the new dowry consists of at least one advanced degree and the promise of unimpeded progress up the social ladder. Lemann skewered this practice when he observed that a college admissions dean "acts as a de facto marriage broker...