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...Weldon Pond...
...African-American students at Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, etc., have with such invitations thumbed their noses at the humanistic civil rights tradition--a tradition honed by the best of African-American leadership, like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Benjamin Mays, Horace Mann Bond, James Weldon Johnson, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, to name just...
After a national protest organized by Roscoe Conkling Bruce, James Weldon Johnson, and other African American leaders, the policy, which also limited the number of Jewish students who could reside in the dorms, was overturned...
...would be unnecessary. That's the conceit of books such as Charles Eric Maine's World Without Men (1958) and Poul Anderson's Virgin Planet (1959). Conversely, cloning might be a device for preserving love. The 1991 British TV miniseries The Cloning of Joanna May, based on a Fay Weldon novel, is about a man who dumps his unfaithful wife -- but only after cloning her so he can replace her with her twin a few years down the line...
...fashion. Although the title easy caused perhaps the greatest controversy, the 22 other essays in this collection show the same no-nonsense approach. Gioia takes on topics as wide-ranging as "Business and Poetry" and "The Poet in an Age of Prose." He reassesses the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Weldon Kees, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery and Margaret Atwood. He extols the character of Elizabeth Bishop and savages Robert...