Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more recent years, some guests of note have been folk singer and comedian David Bromberg, Ronee Blakly, Tom Paxton and Martin Mull, who guest hosted NBC's Tonight Show two weeks...
...Heart of Dark ness, translating the tale of savagery and evil from the Congo to Viet Nam. There, Marlon Brando, playing the Mr. Kurtz character, is a renegade Army colonel who has taken over a remote province and set up his own war against the Communists. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to assassinate the rebellious Kurtz. The movie is already 1½ years behind its original release date and millions of dollars over budget. Coppola has gambled his own reputation and the considerable fortune he made from his Godfather movies on the film's success...
...must remember that the struggle is not limited to international issues. In the words of Martin Luther King, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Racist attitudes, be they directed toward South Africa or Black Harvard students are still racist attitudes that must be eliminated...
...Harvard had stayed relatively unmoved; there had been talk about establishing an African studies program ever since the '50s, when Harvard turned down a grant to establish such a program, but there had been little action. It was not until May, 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination and a new groundswell of black activism, that the Faculty's liberal conscience got the better of it, and Dean Ford established a Committee on African and Afro-American Studies. Henry Rosovsky, then professor of Economics, chaired the committee, which eight months later produced a report calling...
...Tony Martin, professor of Afro-American Studies at Wellesley, will speak on the significance of Afro-American Studies throughout the nation, Green added...