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...justified in its intent to deny him a tenure review. He argued that the department violated procedure by failing to notify him sooner, when he was first promoted to associate professor. He went on to make a case on the merits of his scholarship, ending with a plea for sympathetic students to come...
...Hold my hand,” or various other requests followed by the choral response, “While I run this race.” On the surface this structure may seem repetitive, but when sung, it creates a powerful motif of unity and a joint plea to God flung up to heaven by the slaves...
...portraits, hit you with such brutal honesty that it becomes impossible to look with pity upon the determined little girl or the bright-eyed old woman pictured within the thin black frames. These artists may be preaching an age-old sermon, but somehow the art itself moves beyond the plea, “These people need your help...
...journalists, Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert Kaiser are at the top of their field, the executive editor and senior correspondent, respectively, for the Washington Paistic practices, part plea for reform and part apology for the profession...
About one third of Harvard’s linguistics concentrators met Sunday night in the Winthrop House Dining Hall as a response to a plea by Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux for support in his fight to be considered for tenure...