Word: quests
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...York Times Book Review (May 28, 1995) how, in several versions of his attempt at an autobiography, Douglass emphasized the fact that his father was a white slave owner in one autobiographical version while, in another version, he emphasized the importance of his Black mother to his quest for a viable personhood in our white supremacist-riddled American society. From Frederick Douglass, through James Weldon Johnson (head of the NAACP in the 1930s), to Jean Toomer (a major novelist of the New Negro Movement in the 1920s through 1930s), and down to the many many thousands of mixed-heritage African...
...today's students of Black/white heritage (or Hispanic/Black heritage, Asian/Black heritage, Asian/white heritage, Jewish/gentile heritage, Jewish/Black heritage, etc.) aren't experiencing anything new. Today's cohort of biracial students of Black/white heritage in particular have, I suggest, an obligation to conduct their quest for a viable personhood in a manner that serves not just the career-advancing facet of this personhood. Rather, they should conduct their quest for a viable personhood in a manner that also challenges and seeks to uproot those still surviving white supremacist patterns that pariahize the life-chances of Black folks and Hispanic folks in American...
Hear LaPierre carefully. He didn't say "Sorry about all that." He said "Sorry about some of that." Left standing as the N.R.A.'s chief enemy, which the association continues to demonize in its insatiable quest for new members and more money, is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "That was no apology," says Dewey Stokes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police. "LaPierre can't get off the hook by saying, 'Oops, I was really only talking about atf. Law enforcement is a family, and when you attack one member, you attack...
...director and adapter, Mary Zimmerman, has chiseled her story from a megalithic 16th century Chinese novel, Hsi Yu Chi. It tells of a spiritual quest, drawing on the legend of a 7th century monk who journeyed to India to bring Buddhist scriptures back to China. A trio of supernatural familiars attend him: a monkey, a pig and a river spirit. They are archetypal figures, as timeless as the Nereids who rescued Jason and the Argonauts, or the three sidekicks who accompanied Judy Garland into...
...actions of Dean Carnesale and the officials of the Kennedy School have made a travesty of the University's commitment to open debate and its quest for knowledge and truth. Any policy of the Kennedy School that prohibits unobstructive, non-disruptive protests fails to consider the needs of the Harvard community and its individual members. Perhaps the Kennedy School is concerned that its speakers will be annoyed by protesters; yet annoyance and even outrage are basic components of political debate. The conflict of ideas is truly a battle. Perhaps, aware that C-SPAN was taping Specter's speech for later...