Word: morrison
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...publicity tour forParadise, Morrison was introduced by Professors of Afro-American Studies Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Cornel R. West '74, who set the tone for an event imbued with homage to Morrison and to literature in general...
West, speaking at the podium like a preacher preparing his flock to meet the revelation, used his sonorous and gravelly voice to dramatic effect speaking of Morrison...
Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison read the first chapter of her new novel,Paradise,to a packed audience which included about 50 Harvard students yesterday in downtown Boston's Faneuil Hall...
...here for one reason and one reason only--to listen to one of the last historical figures of this time. The latter part of this age, this literary age, will be Toni Morrison," West proclaimed...
...Morrison received her accolade a bit self-consciously...