Word: marion
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...just complete male chauvinism to think that Radcliffe girls would not be interested in going to a SPORTS event," said Marion C. Childs '73, in a Crimson article on the day before the game...
...seems as if the black community, as represented by Harvard professor Cornel West, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Benjamin Chavis, Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry and Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson, is preoccupied with institutional racism...
Prominent black leaders supporting the march include Jesse Jackson, former NAACP head Benjamin Chavis and D.C. Mayor Marion Barry. Many oppose it, including Congressman John L. Lewis; Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; and Michael Meyers of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. As Berry put it this week: "I do not trust Louis Farrakhan and Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. to lead us to the Promised Land...
...good news is that for the first time since they were new, you can see Keaton's films without having to peer through the accumulated crud of illegal dupings. Among many centennial tributes, including Marion Meade's thorough, poignant new biography, Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase (HarperCollins), the best present is Kino Video's release of 10 cassettes that include all the great works, spiffily restored. amc, the cable movie network, will show the whole oeuvre on Oct. 4, Keaton's birthday...
...attack. The radical barrister, once "special trial counsel" to Martin Luther King Jr., made a national name for himself defending the Chicago Seven and, more recently, such diverse and controversial figures as Indian activist Leonard Peltier, flag burner Gregory Johnson, mob boss John Gotti and Washington, D.C. Mayor Mayor Marion Barry. "He was definitely one of the leading left-of-center lawyers in this century," says legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "His cases showed the country that it was divided on many issues. But he was criticised late in his career of being something of a media hound. And to some...