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...leader admitted that "it seems to be a pretty tame crowd. They're all old. I guess what we're doing is - mostly symbolic." Participants in the Mrs. America pageant, who happened to be convening in another hall 200 yds. away, also displayed uneasiness. Mrs. Florida, Jacqueline Mallery Solomon, said she had "expressed my concern" to the hotel and asked for "proper security...
...novels she proceeded to write constitute provisional and consummately artful answers to these questions. Sula (1973) examines the stormy friendship of two black women and the opposing imperatives to obey or to rebel against the mores of their beleaguered community. Song of Solomon (1977), her only novel with a male protagonist, proved a critical and commercial breakthrough for Morrison; the phantasmagoric saga of a black man in mystical pursuit of his past won the author rapturous praise and a greatly enlarged circle of readers...
Those who do not find Song of Solomon Morrison's best book almost invariably choose Beloved (1987), an intricate, layered, harrowing story about what an escaped slave did to save her child from bondage and the rippling effects of this act through many years and lives. In 1988, after Beloved had been passed over by judges for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle, a group of 48 black authors signed and sent a letter to the New York Times Book Review complaining that Morrison had never won an NBA or a Pulitzer Prize. The gesture...
...raised the issue that a university'sbusiness decisions should be judged by standardscommensurate with the philosophy it teaches in theclassroom," says Donald M. Solomon, a 1973graduate of the Law School who served as HRAAA'sexecutive director...
...HRAAA was very successful in keeping the issueof overall social responsibility on the agenda fortens of thousands of Harvard alumni who receivedour publications or saw our candidates' statementson the overseers ballots," Solomon says. "The factthat our position didn't prevail with theadministration is secondary to the fact that thedebate simply would not have occurred without ourinitiative and participation...