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...most appealing argument the department could make for the relative strength of its British scholarship is that it is impossible to understand the American literary tradition without first understanding its British precursor. This assertion is legitimate, but it does not excuse the weakness of the American curriculum here. An undergraduate English concentrator rarely has the opportunity to use British literature as a window on American literaure, because he or she rarely has the opportunity to study American literature...
...Latin America, the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage to the New World is still two years away, but already it is marred by snappish and divisive quarrels over the meaning of the event. Native American zealots like Means see Columbus as a precursor of exploitation and conquest. Hispanic Americans want to use the quincentenary to stress the glories of Spanish culture in the New World. Environmentalists see the anniversary as a reminder that the arrival of Europeans meant the despoliation of the New World and as a potential inspiration to modern-day Americans to save what is left...
...quincentenary of 1492 approaches, Protestant leaders and American Indian activists denounce Christopher Columbus as the precursor of genocide and destruction...
...moderate earthquake, rated 4.6 on the Richter scale, rattled windows, spilled coffee and broke ceramic figurines. Reason: the earthquake followed a much publicized prediction that the fault is likely to produce a major shock come Dec. 3, and many people feared last week's tremor could be a precursor. The prediction, which has made its way into several newspapers, was the work of Iben Browning, a New Mexico climate consultant, who based his forecast on an analysis of the gravitational pull of the sun and moon. Many seismologists, worried that public concern could degenerate into panic, have denounced...
AFFIRMATIVE action helped create a prosperous Black middle class during the 1970s, but it has probably done much to stir racial tensions between Blacks and whites as well. Moreover, the framers of the 1964 Civil Rights Act never envisioned their legislation as the precursor to quotas and set-asides. In a speech on the Senate floor before passage of the 1964 Act, Hubert Humphrey declared that Title VII, which bans racial and sex discrimination, "does not provide that any quota systems may be established to maintain racial balance in employment...