Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toni Morrison's brilliance does not lie in her ability to portray effectively a black woman's experience in America ((Literature, Oct. 18)). Though the idea of race, she realizes, is not part of reality, America's treatment of it has created oppression for those who have been defined by it. The experiences of black women in America are the experiences of those who are left out. Morrison writes of the experiences of all of us who are forced to conform to another's reality...
...When Morrison's Pulitzer was viewed by some as a token bestowed to appease a racial minority, a grave injustice was done a great writer. That attempt to discredit Morrison's accomplishment, though she was vindicated by being awarded the Nobel, should remind discerning readers how such concepts as affirmative action have victimized the very people they were originally intended to affirm. It is time to let go of an outdated system and give people credit based solely on merit, blind to race, by eliminating special admissions standards and token vacancies...
Jonathan S. Kolodner '94 and Kelly L. Morrison '94, co-chairs for the show, said they expect the event to raise more than $100,000 for the Jimmy Fund of Dana-Farber's Cancer Institute. Cumulative donations for the show, now in its 24th year, exceed $1.3 million...
...actions. "When you take a brick and hurl it at point-blank range as hard as you can into a helpless man's head, what other logical conclusion is there other than that you are trying to kill him or at least disfigure him?" asked Deputy District Attorney Lawrence Morrison. But the defense was able to convince jurors that the beatings arose from the wild circumstances of a riot and were not premeditated acts...
...VIDEOTAPES BECOME UNREAL. Faal at first tried to prove that Williams was not the man seen attacking Denny on the tape. To counter his argument, prosecutors Morrison and Janet Moore had to replay the video for the jury over and over again, thus dulling one of the state's sharpest tools. Jurors were ultimately convinced that Watson was the man who could be seen putting his foot on Denny's neck and that Williams was the one who hit Denny with a brick, then performed a demonic high step for the helicopter news cameras. As it appears to have done...