Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kevin dedicated "Most Way Home" to "my family, blood, adopted, imagined." I ask him how he feels about the weight of Black history, if his work is a kind of homage to all those he includes in his extended family. But it is a question that sometimes makes him impatient. "There's a lot of that burden of representation," he acknowledges. "A lot of times, you become an authority you didn't want to become." He sees that expectation forced on Black artists in a range of media, from film to literature, and he says he sometimes find it stultifying...
...antique grandfather clock that stands in Richard De Gennaro's Widener Library office carries the weight of Harvard tradition...
...selling]," says Jason C. Mitchell '92, a chemistry concentrator in Quincy House. After a two-week sale, the novice entrepreneur amassed a $450 profit by hawking furniture, a weight set, a rug and bookshelves...
Gellert concluded by suggesting that the $23 million dead weight loss, an economic term for wasted resources, could be avoided by getting rid of the taxi cab medallions...
...expect that he'll have the same reaction to my argument here. I am saying, after all, that tutors are dead weight, that the undergraduates are paying out of their ears for a system that doesn't work and that action should be taken to cure this...