Word: marion
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...Take Marion Bartram, a 72-year-old retired orchard tender who as a West Chester school board member swears that she will fight to abolish the works of two Afro-American women writers--Jamaica Kincaid and Pulitizer-Prize winning Toni Morrison--from local public schools. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, she called Morrison "anti-family" and a "man-hater," and accused Kincaid of being a "woman's libber." West Chester school officials, who were attracted to both books partly because of the female protagonists, are embroiled in a debate over yanking the authors off school reading lists...
...Marion B. Gammill was president of The Crimson...
Even men with character flaws as deep as the Grand Canyon feel entitled to hurl the insult. When Mayor Marion Barry was caught smoking crack in a sting operation mounted by the male-dominated FBI, his first reaction was, "Bitch set me up." On the famed 911 tape, O.J. reportedly shouted at Nicole, "I don't want you in my house, you bitch...
...past the baleful eye of the A.C.L.U. and its postulants on the bench. The 1962 Supreme Court decision that banished prayer from public school classrooms is one of the most unpopular the court has handed down, and surely the only one that unites Newt Gingrich and D.C. mayor-elect Marion Barry...
...future leaders, things have not gone so smoothly. Gary Hart was listed in 1979, and we quoted this comment Barry Goldwater made about him: "You can disagree with him politically, but I have never met a man who is more honest or more moral." Another '79 alumnus was Marion Barry, whom we quoted thusly: "I think integrity is the most important quality for a leader." At the time, Barry was the mayor of Washington. Forced out in 1990, he has just been returned to office, which suggests a new definition of leadership: it is the ability to inspire, to command...