Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...career, especially the longer essays which are available in other forms, could have been edited. One wonders how many of Baldwin's former neighbors in Harlem can afford the book's thirty-dollar pricetag. But the biographical importance of this collection outweighs any criticisms about its format. It is rare thing when a human being progresses as far as Baldwin--from clumsy uneducated prose to vivid poetry, from confusion and despair to strength and spokesmanship, and from the resentful mind of a slave to the humanitarian outlook of a true leader. It is a rarer thing still when the public...
...RARE TO FIND two separate student initiatives at Harvard taking aim at the same target, making virtually the same statement at almost the same time, and making a great deal of sense, all at once. But it's not so rare to find little student response...
Although the Saturday stabbing outside Out-of-Town-News is considered a rare event for the University's backyard, Paolillo said that two officers, a sergeant, and a car normally patrol Harvard Square after 9 p.m. on weekends. No increase in crime has been reported recently and greater security for the Square is not necessary, he added...
Even before the hanging, violence had begun to boil up in other parts of the country. In Athlone, a colored (mixed-race) suburb of Cape Town, police and residents engaged in a rare gun battle at a local mosque; one colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed...
...angle gained credibility the following day when another pipe bomb critically injured Hofmann as he was climbing into his parked car half a block from Salt Lake City's Temple Square. In the Toyota's blackened interior, investigators found pipes and other equipment for bomb manufacture, as well as rare books and valuable documents relating to the Mormon Church. Hofmann, it seemed, had accidentally set off a bomb of his own making. After eight hours of surgery, Hofmann, who was expected to survive, maintained from his hospital bed that he was a target, not an assailant. But police...