Word: writer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent editorial in The Crimson criticized minorities and the minority student groups here at Harvard for what the writer suggested is a trend towards self-segregation. The Harvard minority student organizations segregate themselves by being exclusive in their activities, which, by the way, the writer tells us, have become only social events anyway...
...writer apparently did not take part in these conferences. He apparently did not know of their existence, either. If he had known, he would not have accused minorities of political inactivity and of using student organizations as an excuse of party...
...editorial had been merely an attack on the Asian American Association, addressing legitimate problems of the group and explaining how Asian Americans should improve race relations here at Harvard--and in America--then the problem would have been only between the writer and that particular group...
...spring drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood: "My own style seemed to me a groping and elemental attempt to approximate the complexity of envisioned phenomena and it surprised me to have it called luxuriant and self-indulgent; self-indulgent...
...BOOKS: A writer lays claim to his own life story