Word: westing
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Apart from the oppressed minority of conservatives at the Salient and the many rumored "closet conservatives" on the Harvard campus, University Professor Cornel West '74 enjoys a high degree of popularity among students. His fiery sermonizing lecture style leads students through Afro-American Studies 10, while his support of campus progressive movements such as the Living Wage Campaign lends tangibility to his activist ideals. West is one of the rare highly regarded intellectuals who actually makes time for interacting with his students. However, despite his popularity on campus and intellectual standing in general, it would appear as if certain conservatives...
...book's dedication gives the first taste of West's flair for the overly dramatic and sentimental style. It reads "To the memory and legacy of my modern artistic soul mates," then lists twelve artists beginning with John Coltrane and ending with Toni Morrison. West writes in the preface that "This whole [reader]--fraught with tensions and contradictions--reflects my attempt to shatter my own parochial limits and provincial shortcomings...
...delinquent youth in the play: "There is good, there is good/There is untapped good/Like inside, the worst of us is good." To examine the play and find it intentionally, harmfully stereotypical is not just a difference of opinion, it's a misinterpretation of the authors' intent. "West Side" is a timeless story, whether it's set in 16th-century Verona, 1950's New York or any modern city today...
...yesterday was that some First Amendment advocates were hoping to stage the production even after its cancellation by the high school. They will have to find a director, since Amherst Regional High School's musical director is already booked for the season, orchestrating "Crazy for You" in place of "West Side Story...
...aims of its creators. Dickinson once wrote in her poem "The Show": "The show is not the show,/But they that go./Menagerie to me/My neighbor be./Fair play--Both went to see." The great poet could not have imagined these neighbors, and sadly, there will be no "West Side" show to see in Amherst this winter...