Word: followings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Since Lance wrote the cover story on the Declaration of Independence for TIME'S Bicentennial issue and on the Bill of Rights for our follow-up issue a year later, he seemed the inescapable choice for this journey into history. He was there...
...third troublesome plank, the drafters brushed aside an attempt by Carter sup porters to soft-pedal the abortion issue. The platform now flatly opposes "any constitutional amendment" restricting the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion. That could be the most divisive plank of all, particularly if Republican platform drafters follow Ronald Reagan's lead in endorsing just such an amendment...
...think the process of discussion, reflection, initiation and follow-through will stretch over such a long period of time that one could argue that this isn't a bad time to let a new dean take over," Michelman added...
With The Woman Warrior (1976), Author Maxine Hong Kingston left herself a hard act to follow. That book, her first, indelibly rendered the pain of growing up female and Chinese in the U.S., of being in effect a servant among the dispossessed. It bridged two vastly different cultures; its drawing of Chinese legends and customs was thorough and fascinating, while its evocation of the uncertainties of assimilation was quintessentially American. The Woman Warrior did, in short, what all great autobiographies do: it turned self-knowledge into...
...place suitable for them. One of Kingston's grandfathers fetches up in the 1860s in the Sierra Nevada, seeking work with the Central Pacific Railroad. He is hired on the spot, Kingston notes acidly, because "chinamen had a natural talent for explosions." Years of backbreaking, dangerous work follow, the continent is finally linked by rail, and then the grandfather and his fellow Chinese find they are no longer welcome on the Gold Mountain...