Word: morrisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TONI MORRISON Novelist...
...Nobel Prize for literature merely confirmed what her readers and admirers had known for more than two decades: Toni Morrison is a major American writer. But because she is an African-American woman, her importance to and impact on her times transcend the literary. Her example, both in her powerful novels and in her strong, imposing personality, has inspired a generation of black artists and produced seismic effects on publishing...
...McMillan, the most self-revelatory writer in the world--this week, anyway--she grouses that "nobody would dream of asking Toni Morrison who she is sleeping with." Later, her Jamaican friend Plummer, a slim, amiable fellow who studies hotel management at Diablo Valley College, pokes his head into her cluttered office. He admits that he is "flattered" to be the model for Stella's Winston Shakespeare, though "I don't really read books." "But he will," says McMillan, "or else he's moving." Laughter all around...
INTENSE ATTENTION HAS BEEN FOCUSED on HIV testing as a result of boxer Tommy Morrison's riveting disclosures in the past few weeks [HEALTH, Feb. 26]. But there is a serious risk that legislative, civic and sports leaders will jump to HIV testing as the solution without doing anything further. That would be a shame. If HIV testing is all that is done, little will be accomplished to either prevent the transmission of HIV among boxers or to improve boxing's safety. Those who advocate HIV testing to the exclusion of other solutions take as automatic the premise that bleeding...
...extensive reading list focuses primarily on twentieth century American writers such as Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, Jack London and William Faulkner...