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...books in question--Kincaid's Lucy and Morrison's The Bluest Eye-- are recognized nationally as literary gems. Yet the West Chester school board seems obsessed with the books' sexual imagery, to the point where one member, Randy Kenner, told the Inquirer that "I can't see any literary value in this book, and I don't think that's hard to understand. Our children are exposed to enough of this...
...degree qualified her to teach English, which she did, first in Texas and then back at Howard; but her familiarity with Faulkner's work proved invaluable when she later began to write fiction. Incantatory Faulknerian cadences crop up in all her novels, including her first, The Bluest Eye (1970), as in a description of women "old enough to be irritable when and where they chose, tired enough to look forward to death, disinterested enough to accept the idea of pain while ignoring the presence of pain...
...SHOCKING ENOUGH WHEN THE BLUEST OF America's blue-chip companies, IBM, announced last November that 20,000 of its 350,000 employees would either retire or resign by the end of this year. But when the estimate of departing workers doubled to 40,000 last week, the effect was numbing, both to the public and to the markets, where IBM stock is trading near its 10-year low. By the time the last pink slip and gold watch are handed out, the world's largest computer company will be but three-quarters the size...
Princeton University professor and Pulitzer Prize-Winner Toni Morrison followed Heaney and read selections from her novels Beloved, Tar Baby and The Bluest...
...most crucial cost of the new environment may not be measurable in dollars. The past two years have seen a boom in alleged ethical lapses at even the bluest of blue-chip firms. New York's Sullivan & Cromwell found itself contesting no fewer than four accusations, notably one by an opposing firm that a partner bribed witnesses while representing the widow of Pharmaceutical Heir J. Seward Johnson in last year's estate battle. New York's Paul, Weiss discovered last year that a young associate, Michael David, had masterminded the "Yuppie Five" insider-trading scandal. Attorneys handling corporate mergers also...