Word: maes
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...epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging its plot on a somber and respectful treatment of the abrupt sexual infatuation and love-suicide pact of a pair of 13-year-olds. Shakespeare could bring it off in Verona. In Guare's rural Sicily, it seems mere wind. Mae West couldn't make it worse, and Richard Burbage couldn't make it better...
...just four years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans founded Morehouse and Howard universities. According to the Bureau of the Census, between Reconstruction and 1910, the literacy rate among Southern blacks climbed from 20% to 70%. "There has always been a strong pressure toward educational achievement," says Mae Kendall, director of elementary education for the Atlanta public schools. Kendall, who grew up in semirural Thomasville, Ga., recalls, "My mother was not a lettered woman by any means, but she said, with a good education, you could turn the world upside down. That was a strong common linkage among all black...
...debate is threatening the city's social and cultural fabric. New Orleans now has a 62% black majority, largely because of white flight. A Times-Picayune poll last week showed that 66% of voters, including most blacks, want the ordinance repealed. The law's chief sponsor, councilwoman Dorothy Mae Taylor, was reviled on posters and T shirts as THE GRINCH THAT STOLE MARDI GRAS. Said carnival spokesman Beau Bassich: "The law wasn't needed. It tampers with a very special tradition that makes New Orleans' appeal so unique. It is putting everybody into a no-fun mood...
From prostitute to professor and playwright, from country child to civil rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...
From prostitute to professor and playwright, from country child to civil rights marcher to feminist, Endesha Ida Mae Holland has lived a life remarkable in itself and symbolic of half a century of astonishing U.S. social change. Her bluesy memoir has been toured by a trio of women, equally deft at folksy caricature and tragedy, who sing like the Liberty Bell...