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...Crimson dropped another close one Sunday against its only American competition, Iowa's Mt. Mercy; final score: 57-50. Harvard's second precocious freshman, Wendy Joseph, scored 17 points, but she could not single-handedly lead the team to the consolation victory. Harvard assistant coach Beth Wheatley said afterwards, "It was just intense all the way, and that's the way it came...
...tournament was played under Canadian rules, and that only gave the Crimson extra problems, Wheatley said...
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...
...Afro-American religious experience; the peculiar from of the dialect which Dunbar introduced into his works; and the particular integration of the folkloric tradition which Chestnutt used so well in his "Conjure" tales. One finds a very special use of the African elegy in the works of Phyllis Wheatley; especial richness of Arabic poetry in the poems of Claude McKay; use of Jazz rhythms in the work of Langston Hughes: and the particular coolness of Afro-American life-style in the work...
...poems of Phyllis Wheatley and the prose of Gustava Vassa first spoke of this affirmation. In their works we observe the contradictory interpretation of the social and political reality of Afro-Americans. On the one hand were the horrors of slavery and the middle passage, while on the other hand were the possibilities of redemption and affirmation of the humanistic ideal of man which the Christian religion promised, and which ob-jectively spoke of the noblest ideals of man. It was, I suspect, the attempt to bring forth a synthesis of these two antagonistic poles that became the modus operandiof...