Word: toni
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...chilling, post-modern pessimism that came after, great art became hard to come by. That was when people started telling us that "greatness" in art is a subjective business, culturally constructed and so forth, and this neat device let them pretend that (save me your howls of anguish) Toni Morrison deserves a Nobel Prize in literature, or that Jackson Pollock's paint-spattered canvases are 20th century versions of the Mona Lisa, or that Elton John deserves a knighthood...
Future speakers in the program include: Drew Gilpin Faust (who will assume the position of Dean of the Radcliffe Insitute on January 1, 2001) at the Agassiz Theatre, Feb. 6 at 3:30p.m; Toni Morrison in Sanders Theatre, April 3, 4p.m.; and Amartya Sen at the Agassiz Theater, April 24 at 4p.m...
...explain, to the simple-minded among us, the precise legal definition of "a constitutional majority of the popular vote"--which would seem, at first glance, to be an utterly meaningless offense against United States law, not to mention the English language. But then, the petition was also signed by Toni Morrison, who has been perpetrating Oprah-peddled offenses against the English language for quite some time--so perhaps the relentless nonsense of the text is to be expected...
...Radcliffe Inaugural Lectures will continue with talks by the first Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Drew Gilpin Faust, Master of Trinity College and Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, and author Toni Morrison...
...inauguration, like the search, was full of pomp and circumstance. Unlike the search, it was open. In a two-day gala--a far cry from Bok's 20-minute ceremony--Harvard featured famous faculty, alums and guests, including Yo-Yo Ma '76, Toni Morrison and Saul Bellow...