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...feminist pioneer, or a woman of evil?" Muller's three-hour film does not answer the question. But it does a brilliant job of illustrating the superb talent, the energetic drive, and the moral ambiguity of Leni Riefenstahl...
...burden of a pioneer to be the presumed spokesman for all "his people." Ellison, a sensible gent, declined this honor. He was not every black writer; he was a black writer -- or, as he might prefer, a writer. And, for some blacks, he was guilty of having allowed himself to be praised by white critics. In the '60s, when the civil rights sing-along gave way to Black Power shock therapy, Ellison found himself overshadowed by more urgent novelists, such as Richard Wright (Native Son), who played Malcolm X to Ellison's Martin Luther King Jr. Ellison compiled two volumes...
...murder of Frug, a feminist legal scholar who was a pioneer of the controversial Critical Legal Studies movement, capped a wave of violent crime the set all of Harvard on edge in the spring...
DIED. LUCIUS AMERSON, 60, one of the Deep South's first black sheriffs; of complications related to a stroke; in Tuskegee, Alabama. A pioneer in the resurgence of black participation in Southern civic life, Amerson served as Macon County sheriff from 1967 to 1987, well into the era of the New South...
...bandconsisting of Jake S. Krielkamp and Alex J.LeVine, both juniors, along with Gian Neffinger'93 and Oliver Strauch '94. The record found itsway across the country; it was received warmly atBU, BC, Princeton, Columbia and even as far awayas Berkeley. Then someone sent a copy to Europe.The music pioneer John Peel, of "Peel Sessions"fame, played it on BBC radio, and suddenly BettyPlease started receiving fan mail from England andScotland. The record then made its way to Germany,where it also met with success...