Word: morrison
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Take Marion Bartram, a 72-year-old retired orchard tender who as a West Chester school board member swears that she will fight to abolish the works of two Afro-American women writers--Jamaica Kincaid and Pulitizer-Prize winning Toni Morrison--from local public schools. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, she called Morrison "anti-family" and a "man-hater," and accused Kincaid of being a "woman's libber." West Chester school officials, who were attracted to both books partly because of the female protagonists, are embroiled in a debate over yanking the authors off school reading lists...
...books in question--Kincaid's Lucy and Morrison's The Bluest Eye-- are recognized nationally as literary gems. Yet the West Chester school board seems obsessed with the books' sexual imagery, to the point where one member, Randy Kenner, told the Inquirer that "I can't see any literary value in this book, and I don't think that's hard to understand. Our children are exposed to enough of this...
Regional Editors: Donald Morrison (Asia), Christopher Redman (Europe), George Russell (The Americas), John Saar (Middle East), Jacob Young (South Pacific...
Regional Editors: Donald Morrison (Asia), Christopher Redman (Europe), George Russell (The Americas), John Saar (Middle East), Jacob Young (South Pacific...
...definitive history Three Centuries of Harvard, Samuel Eliot Morrison wrote that "the poorest people knew that they could call on Parkman in the middle of the night for some medical emergency and not fear of being rebuked...