Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparently unified speaker appears throughout most of the collection and especially in the first two sections. A middle-class, alcoholic family man, the speaker wrestles with questions of aging and change and intently reflects on the past and on the reality of pain and life. And with Jones' language, the reader follows the collection like a story...
...Drawl," placed strategically in the book's middle, is welcomingly sprinkled with the sounds of "yes'm," "no'm" and "hidey" as Jones transports his reader temporarily to the forklift, the Shoney's or the Appalachian foothills. But it is not all a happy remembrance. At several points, the speaker reveals his embarrassment, that "until fourth grade, [he] spoke rarely...
Juxtaposed with the speaker's explanation (NOT READABLE) Labyrinth, and later he refers directly to Virgil and Homer. Relaying a dialogue in which a simple man assumes El Salvador is somewhere in Southern Alabama, the speaker--in contrast--demonstrates his own learning. "When Mongols conquered the Chinese..." he begins the eleventh stanza, immediately before which he describes a voice as "the London cockney of a Lebanese immigrant." Thus, the speaker in the elegy is separated...
...they displayed statistics found in the Harvard booklet on rape). But without RUS funding, many organizations could die. The organizations and events RUS has sponsored include The Male Athletes Forum, Swanwhite, Crimson Dance Team, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, the Tampoon, individual student research in Nepal and Israel, Hillel speaker Lynn Davidman, Girlspot, WISHR, the Athena Conference, ECHO, Hillel Women's Group, Lighthouse Magazine, Radcliffe Rugby, BGLTSA, the Philippine Forum, Women and Youth in Support of Each Other (WYSE), Speak up, MHAAG speaker Kay Jamison, IMPACT, Mainly Jazz Dance Company, self defense courses, Latinas Unidas, Association of Black Radcliffe Women...
After the speech, Marc Stad '01 said he agreed with Wilson's "textbook definitions of democracy," by disagreed with the speaker's pessimistic outlook for the future of Russian and Chinese democracy...