Word: rootedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite his shortcomings as a candidate, Perot could take some satisfaction from his first plunge into electoral politics. He demonstrated that Americans are hungry for leadership rooted in common sense and plain speaking. He was on the mark when he said, "If anyone wants to know who's to blame...
Film-maker Marlon Riggs' and writer Ron Simmons' contribution, entitled "Sexuality, Television and Death: A Black Gay Dialogue on Malcolm X" draws similarly surprising conclusions from Malcolm's ideas. In a subtle discussion, Riggs' and Simmons' pride in Malcolm is tempered by a disappointment in his celebration of a rigid...
And Hilton Als, in perhaps the most disturbing and challenging essay included here, contests the very existence of any book (such as this one) which defines writers by color. He contemptuously dismisses the notions of "otherness" and "difference" that govern so much thought today, calling them "very stupid words." His...
A. No, it's not mean. I once wrote a newspaper column when I was in Sacramento, and I said feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. There is a profoundly held, truthful belief rooted in there that is, in my mind, compassionate...
What's the source of this fascination? Is itcompletely random or something deeply rooted?