Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know that Ali did not mean to intimidate me by appealing to the authorities, but he should be warned that his action might inadvertently have that effect on others. There is little enough frank speech on race as things stand. My remark--and it will not be the last--was intended to widen the range of things that can be said publicly at Harvard. At present there is a lamentable discrepancy between what is said and thought in private and what can be discussed openly without fear. Professor Harvey C. Mansfield...
...wasn't making a remark about right now but a historical remark," Mansfield said. "I rather think [Black students] do not get inflated grades...
...said he does not know whether grade inflation still occurs. "It may happen," he said, "but it was a historical remark...
...know that Mr. Ali did not mean to intimidate me by appealing to the authorities, but he should be warned that his action might inadvertently have that effect on others," he wrote. "My remark--and it will not be the last--was intended to widen the range of things that can be said publicity at Harvard...
...ancestry might have been invented to demonstrate the remark of the Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado: Mestizaje es grandeza (Mixture is greatness). Lam's father was Chinese, his mother the daughter of a slave from the Congo. (Spain did not abandon slavery in its Caribbean colonies until 1886.) He grew up hearing African languages spoken all around him, and his godmother was a priestess of a Santeria cult, a hybrid form of Christianity and African worship...