Word: vann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VANN. Standing beside a framed picture of Malcolm X, Vann scans the blighted streets below his office window in a poor section of Brooklyn. "Rhetoric means nothing here," says the New York State assemblyman. "We are establishing a track record so that politicians everywhere understand that this city's black vote has national implications...
...Vincent Vann, who is of Cuban ancestry and grew up in New Jersey, says his children will be bilingual. "I am going to raise them speaking Spanish and English...
King recognizes three stages of "historical consciousness"--a term poorly defined by him and most others who overuse it--in the Southern Renaissance, an intellectual outburst after World War I that includes William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Thomas Wolfe, Lillian Smith, W.J. Cash, C. Vann Woodward, and Robert Penn Warren. King observes that these three historical stages leading up to the Southern Renaissance--repitition, recollection, reassimilation--parallel exactly the process of psychoanalysis. The writer and historians of this era, climaxing in Woodward, struggled to reassess the Southern burden, the Gone With the Wind fantasy of hoopskirts and grace, the centerpiece...