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What best symbolizes black progress--and white resistance--in America is the march. Haggard slaves marched north, using moonlight and north-facing moss to get to freedom. Years later, regiments of blacks again marched north, this time in the great migration, drawn by jobs and away from Jim Crow. In the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian...
Fearing Gardiner had decided to head out to the Charles for a moonlight skate after leaving home at 10 p.m., Gardiner's family alerted the Boston missing persons bureau. The Gardiner mystery had begun...
...first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, five years ago, Cristina Garcia laid authoritative claim to the hearts and elemental souls of Cuban women, their dreams, their zany ways, the "anxious moonlight" inside them; in the process, she won a National Book Award nomination and a devoted following. Now, in her second novel, The Aguero Sisters, (Knopf; 300 pages; $24), she extends her domain to the whole history of the island across this century, and the "aura vultures" and "Batista hawks" and "siguapa stygian owls" that flit through its heavens, above all the political upheavals and reversals. Indeed, not the least...
...this re-seeding really the right approach? The Harvard birds seem to enjoy a lion's share of the seeds. And although we see a few tendrils of grass grow from seeding, there are rumors that bundles of sod grass are brought in by moonlight after students leave and before Commencement...
...pirates appear disguised as pilgrims and launch a surprise attack on the pasha and his wives. Reunited with Medora, Conrad kills Birbanto upon learning of his treachery. Back on the high seas, a storm erupts, and amidst thunder and lightning the ship sinks. In the final scene, moonlight reveals Conrad and Medora climbing safely onto a rock, signifying the triumph of their love...