Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young men in Harvard Business School (HBS) were found guilty of harassing fellow students and given community service and some are not allowed to attend graduation. When this information was posted in the Public Forum folder of the e-mail system in the business school at the University of Southern California, some people thought that it was a joke...
...understood, for instance, the importance of symbolism in fighting discrimination. In 1938, while attending the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Ala., she refused to abide by a segregation ordinance that required her to sit in the white section of the auditorium, apart from her black friends. The following year, she publicly resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution after it barred the black singer Marian Anderson from its auditorium...
...reminds me of how the Russian upper crust once castigated Peter the Great for being unafraid to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty. Amazingly, in our huge, multinational country, where the residents of St. Petersburg speak with a different accent from those of Moscow, Gorbachev's southern speech is held against...
...customarily inspect their People's Liberation Army troops--is a virtual monument to People Power in the abstract. Its western edge is taken up by the Great Hall of the People. Its eastern side is dominated by the Museum of Chinese Revolution. The Mao Zedong mausoleum swallows up its southern face...
...remember how we got to this point in 'Michael Collins', Neil Jordan's earnest (though not always historically accurate) tale of the brilliant military mind with a 'talent for mayhem' (Liam Neeson) who virtually invented modern urban guerilla warfare and liberated at least the southern portion of the Emerald Isle from British rule. Don't worry about the history part--the fudges are minor, and it's great fun to watch as Neeson fights the British for Ireland and Aidan Quinn for the love of Julia Roberts...