Word: vivian
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...DIED. VIVIAN MALONE JONES, 63, whose battle to enroll at the University of Alabama resulted, on June 11, 1963, in a now-infamous "stand in the school-house door" by then Governor George Wallace; in Atlanta. Before stepping aside to allow Jones and fellow black student James Hood entry, Wallace railed against the federally-ordered integration. Yet despite the pervasive racism that led Hood to transfer, Jones managed to thrive, becoming the school's first African-American graduate in 1965. Jones, who received an apology from Wallace in 1986, later said she "had a responsibility ... to myself, my family...
However, panel member Vivian S.M. Louie, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, said at the panel that not every Asian ethnic group performed better compared to the other races...
Freshman driver Vivian Liao led Harvard with two goals, while Mehaffey added...
Margaret Edson’s “W;t” follows the cancer treatment of the ironically named Dr. Vivian Bearing, a professor of 17th century literature specializing in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Dying of ovarian cancer, Bearing (Heather Boas) distances herself from the horrific eight months of futile chemotherapy by analyzing her disease in the context of Donne’s paradoxical attitudes toward death...
...than the somewhat simplistic questions of philosophy or the realistic but unsympathetic and slightly flat characters. In fact, audience members are more likely to come out of this play inspired to pick up a book of poetry than to be kinder to their fellow man: a result, perhaps, that Vivian Bearing would approve...