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...Unknown City: The Lives of Poor and Working Class Young Adults explores the twentysomethings who occupy the lowest economic stratum. The book does not pose a singular argument or present one over-arching thesis. Rather, by chronicling the lives of the young working class, it attempts to locate patterns and questions. But the questions that The Unknown City poses extend to more awesome issues than the future of economics and jobs. Instead, it documents the strain of poverty and race relations as inner cities turn from melting pots into pressure cookers, ready to explode...
...certain level of respect from white folks. But when Armstrong called out President Eisenhower for not standing behind those black children as school integration began in Little Rock, Ark., 40 years ago, there was not a peep heard from anyone else in the jazz world. His heroism remained singular. Such is the way of the truly great: they do what they do in conjunction or all by themselves. They get the job done. Louis Daniel Armstrong was that kind...
Until the 1970s, the duties of the classmarshals were relatively singular: to plan ClassDay. But according to Diane Jellis, associatedirector for classes and reunions at the AlumniAssociation (HAA), Harvard soon felt that moremoney was needed for reunions, and so the classmarshals were charged with expanding the number ofclass events to the dozens that exist...
...speaker. It is hard not to feel invigorated speaker. It is hard not to feel invigorated when Gomes wants us to spend, not merely Sunday but the rest of the week, pondering that "Everyone of us is born with endowed opportunity...God has destined you for something unique, something singular with your name on it. Your job in life is to find out what that...
...Henry Adams but makes less sense today than his brilliant description of the President as perhaps the fundamental motive force of our age: "Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts...Roosevelt, more than any other man living within the range of notoriety, showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matter--he was pure...