Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historical eruptions of that time would be dramatic enough by themselves. They are not strong enough, however, to hold the drama; Angelou's writing style becomes more a chain of name-dropping and weird metaphors than a story. For instance, she walks into her office at SCLC to find Dr. Martin Luther King sitting at her desk. But even with the opportunity to enlarge our concept of this human monument, Angelou fails to present Dr. King in more than a bizarre cameo: "Looking at him, in my office, alone, was like seeing a lion sitting down at my dining room...