Word: milles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white folks could be black for just one Saturday night, they wouldn't never want to be white folks no more." Henry Louis Gates Jr. does not go nearly that far in Colored People (Knopf; 216 pages; $22), his memoir of growing up in a West Virginia mill town during the 1950s and '60s. But his beguiling elegy for the exuberant society blacks created for themselves under the veil of segregation provides one explanation of why few African Americans, even if they had the power to change, would choose to be anything else...
Student representatives on the subcommitteewere enthusiastic about the possible additions tothe curriculum. The present readings on women inthe works of Mill and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freudare not adequate, they said...
Monty sneaks into Widener, a strange and fabulous Widener (okay, so it's not really Widener: Harvard wouldn't allow Alek to film there). He goes down into a boiler room, a strange and fabulous boiler room--a scary boiler room not unlike an old steel mill--and encounters among the boilers Simon Wilder (Joe Pesci), a homeless man living there. Simon has Monty's thesis but won't give it back. Monty gets Simon evicted, but Simon hides the thesis. He makes a deal with Monty to give him a page a day for food and housing...
...Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf...
...Mill Neck, New York...