Word: stanley
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...McWhorter, an associate professor of linguistics at Berkeley, will make him a hero to the black-bashing crowd. Black, smart and only 34, McWhorter is being touted by his publisher as a maverick "more angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more forward-looking than Stanley Crouch." McWhorter says he's uncomfortable being associated with authors acclaimed by white conservatives and slammed by many blacks--but, hey, it goes with the territory. If you're a self-described "proper-talking black guy who's had all the advantages," you've got to expect other blacks...
...July 17]. Lee said, "I kept wondering, Where are all the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" As any schoolboy knows, cotton did not become king in the South until after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, in early 1793, several years after the events portrayed in the movie. STANLEY W. KANDEBO Newtown...
...Stanley J. Kunitz '26 will be the country's tenth poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Monday, succeeding Robert Pinksy in October as the nation's top poet...
...perfectly sensible suggestion that we should try to have lay persons on some of our panels that were rendering judgments about which applications should get grants. It was a meeting at a hotel in Washington attended by many scholarly people, and there was a man at this meeting named Stanley Katz, who was president of the ACLU, and he called my suggestion that "the most pernicious idea he had ever heard," and to me it was just common sense. That was a warning about what my tenure at the endowment was likely to turn out to be as long...
...bring those suits? Any one of the 500,000 or so Florida smokers who have been harmed by tobacco automatically belongs to the class action. If the case approaches a conclusion favorable to smokers, trial lawyers Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt in Miami, who are class counsel, will organize the plaintiffs...