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...anti-Semitism" of the 1970s and the real (but bloodless) threat of intermarriage. Its appeal to Americans at large grew as the nation's post-Vietnam mood turned dystopian and identity politics put a premium on victimhood. The best example of the resulting crossover appeal was the influential nbc mini-series Holocaust in 1978, intensively promoted by Jewish agencies but originally intended by its network as an answer to the seminal identity-promoting TV event, Roots...
...appeal of Marilyn Monroe, focusing on the legacy of her celluloid image instead of the tabloid conspiracies that crowd her persona. The jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery, Ala., matron to unshakable icon of the civil rights movement. Collaborating with staff writer Romesh Ratnesar, Fang explained the symbiotic nature of physics and political dissent that he and Sakharov practiced. Says Ratnesar...
...senior forward displayed his talent over the next month-and-a-half as the Crimson put together an 8-4-1 record starting with Nebraska. He picked up the slack as nagging injuries put Moore into a mini-slump...
...been taking it very seriously," Binkowski said. "Sometimes you can take practice games nonchalantly, but Coach Walsh had us playing in uniforms, he divided us into two teams and we made it a mini-series. It's helped us to stay sharp and we're chomping at the bit to play...
...been taking it very seriously," Binkowski said. "Sometimes you can take practice games nonchalantly, but Coach Walsh had us playing in uniforms, he divided us into two teams and we made it a mini-series. It's helped us to stay sharp and we're chomping at the bit to play...