Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fawning of a placcid acceptance of bourgeois reality or is it the violent reaction of things white which the aestheticians of the Black Aesthetic found so debilitating? Writing in the 1960's Hoyt Fuller suggested that "The young writers of the black ghetto have set out in search of a black aesthetic, a system of isolating and evaluating the artistic works of black people which reflect the special character and imperatives of black experiences." This was an important movement which attempted to excoriate the whiteness that blackened out souls and to fashion new ideals and idols of beauty. More importantly...
...American scholar is lauded if he studies the works of Euro-American authors: an Irish critic is honored if he knows the intricacies of Mr. Joyce. One is called perceptive if he can fathom why Beckett is waiting for Godot, of if indeed Pirandello's characters are really in search of an author or vice-versa. Indeed, one admires Pirandello's technical brilliance and his choice of metaphysical subject matter. Yet if and when one decides that the socio-psychological realism of Toni Morrison is indeed of tremendous literary significance or that Margaret Walker's fusion of history and literature...
...Search of History, White...
...Jimmy Carter, a political product of our search for honor, has allowed these old shadows of doubt to flicker again is incomprehensible. But last week the stories of the Carter peanut-warehouse loan and the appointment of a "special counsel" to investigate generated new concerns about truth...
Nahigian was the unanimous choice of the six-man search committee last June, when the Athletic Department was trying to find a replacement for Park. Nahigian was then baseball coach at Providence College, where he had led his teams to NCAA post-season play in nine of 16 seasons...