Word: morrison
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Under the title “Books, Politics and the Culture War,” Toni Morrison, Al Franken ’73, Sidney Blumenthal, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Joe Conason spoke to a packed house of over 700 on the ways in which books could turn the political tide...
Four different kinds of writers were chosen for the panel, to reflect the fact that a variety of styles can lead to cultural change. Morrison was the novelist, Franken the polemicist, Blumenthal the journalist and Kennedy the advocate...
...kind of urgency informs [books],” Morrison said. “An urgency that can lift the veil that has descended over honest informative public debate...
...Morrison also spoke of the importance of print and culture in terms of conflict. Race, she said, “has exposed the obvious and inevitable conflicts between empire and democracy, between cannibalism and democracy. These have unfolded into culture...
Harvard trounced the Big Green 82-59, holding Dartmouth freshman phenom Elise Morrison to only 15 points while Peljto headlined with...