Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Afro-American literature has developed as most any other literature within the Western world. In it one can see a classical period in which the works of Phillis Wheatley were most conspicuous. In Williams Wells Brown's Clotel we see the emanation of a Romantic tradition, and in his case he used arguments made by Voltaire and Rousseau to buttress his condemnation of slavery. In Charles Chestnutt's work we see a literature of Realism, and in the work of Richard Wright we see aspects of Naturalism and, later on, attempts at existentialist ideas. In Toni Morrison we find...
...October, the Tanzanians have shot down 18 of Amin's 26 combat aircraft, and in one recent week captured a Soviet T-55 tank, seven armored cars and other equipment. Some Ugandan army units based at Masaka and nearby Mbarara are reported to be in rebellion. Says a Western diplomat in Nairobi, capital of neighboring Kenya: "It looks as if Amin has abandoned all of southern Uganda...
...lavatories during flight (a common airline practice) could spread disease-causing bacteria. Intrigued, Rondle decided to investigate. He picked cholera as a potential airborne culprit because public health agencies keep close tabs on the disease. Thus when he traced regular aircraft routes between Calcutta, where cholera is endemic, and Western Europe, he found that the unexplained cholera cases had invariably occurred along or near these pathways...
...Desaulniers, the top player in the country, the Crimson wasn't expected to fare that well in the grueling three-day, six-round event. However, the racquentmen fooled all the oddsmakers by placing a respectable fourth out of 25 schools, finishing behind the pre-tourney favorites Princeton, Penn and Western Ontario...
...division, senior captain John Havens ended his collegiate career in style, winning three tough matches before bowing to Western Ontario legend Phil Mohtadi. Before losing to Mohtadi, Havens knocked off Bowdoin's number one player in the first round, 3-0, and followed with consecutive 3-zip sweeps of Dartmouth's top player Peter Greulich and Princeton's number two man Garry "Foggy" Fogler...