Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...group of firebrands and revolutionaries gathered in a meetinghouse foreshadowed the later work in Philadelphia by the "fathers of the country." The constitution was approved and became the world's oldest document of its kind...
...Swedish Internation Development Agency (equivalent to USAID) has published a booklet about genital mutilation and a group of women arranged a traveling exhibition with "explicit photographic materials." Female circumcision is considered a major health problem by an enlightened opinion who wants to give medical aid to Africa. Therefore, the Somalian delegate to the UN Conference for Women has made a film showing clitoridectomy and infibulation and SIDA has paid for copies. It was also shown at All Womens' House in Stockholm. I hope that this film will be shown at Harvard in spite of Dr. Counter's ridiculous protests...
...Another group of Blacks came from Nova Scotia and the West Indies--often more educated, and, according to the authors of the immigrant historyZone of Emergencepossessing "a directness of manner and felicity of speech which was most attractive," they tended at first not to mingle with the other Blacks, in some cases sending back to the islands for wives. But by 1920, when Everton Johnson arrived, many of the differences had been muted. "Evidently at one time there was not too happy a feeling, but they began to marry into each other, so that soon they were quite close...
However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Hakansson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Hakansson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
Students should know whom to write about--the group of "logical" or "obvious" choices includes James Vorenberg, associate dean; Frank 1. Michelman, head of the year-old committee on curriculum reform; Charles R. Nesson, associate dean; Abram J. Chayes, head of the placement committee; and Jerome A. Cohen, associate dean...