Word: yusef
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Huma Yusef '02, while she called Tharoor "very eloquent," said she was disappointed by the rudimentary level of the speech, citing the sophistication of many members of the heavily international audience with regard to UN issues...
...inner circle is made up mostly of whites, but he has also befriended Gen Xers like Yusef Jackson, son of Jesse. The balancing act is most evident in his campaign video, a multicultural melange showing Glenn with kids and farmers. At one point he is seen ambling with his parents and a golden retriever through the Georgia countryside. Dylan "never talked about race," says his mother to the camera...
...combination of benign neglect, accumulated goodwill and a devoted cult of readers who will still be on deck reciting favorite lines should the poetic Titanic ever go down. But there's good news: the lifeboats have been launched. This publishing season brings three books--J.D. McClatchy's Ten Commandments, Yusef Komunyakaa's Thieves of Paradise and Deborah Garrison's A Working Girl Can't Win--with room for passengers of every class...
...could accuse Yusef Komunyakaa, 50, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a tenured professor at Princeton, of writing self-indulgent, feel-good verse, and he shows why in Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University; 128 pages; $19.95). Raised in a particularly racist precinct of rural Louisiana, Komunyakaa, who is black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into...
Last October, time senior correspondent Jack White noted that in the same week, one African-American author, Toni Morrison, won the Nobel Prize for Literature while another, Poet Laureate Rita Dove, read her work at the White House. Not long thereafter, another black poet, Yusef Komunyakaa, won the Pulitzer Prize. White began to wonder whether these events and the increasing prominence of other African-American authors signaled a black literary efflorescence...