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...talking for their race and white feminists did the talking for their sex. In recent years a growing chorus of black female writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker has begun to direct a passionate blast against male chauvinists on both sides of the color line. But there has seldom been an indictment of the self-absorption and self-delusion of the corporate male, both white and black, as stinging -- or hilarious -- as Jill Nelson's wildly uneven account of her four-year misadventure as a reporter for the Washington Post during the late 1980s...
...thing about 'the rag' was that there was always two things going on," says Allen. "There was the experience of working as a collective as well as writing about feminist issues." The latter was seldom as easy as it may have seemed to outsiders, according to Allen...
...Most visiting committees turn in reports that are seldom critical. It is rare for the committees to raise fundamental criticisms," says Brimmer. "The typical report is only marginally helpful...
...part-time employment for needy students, even providing black uniforms with white caps and aprons for those who had waitressing jobs--at 50 cents an hour. The work ethic was a fact of life in those times. Circumstances, and our parents, taught us the value of money, but that seldom added up to greed. There wasn't that much money around...
Because native plants are well adapted to the regions in which they grow, they require little in the way of care. They seldom, if ever, need watering, and they tolerate insect pests as well as extremes of heat and cold. They are, for the most part, resistant to disease, and will flourish without chemical fertilizer. By contrast, says John Dromgoole, who runs the Garden-Ville nursery in Austin, "poorly adapted plants put gardeners on a chemical treadmill, a treadmill we're trying to help them get off." Dromgoole, host of a popular radio and TV garden show, tells his audiences...