Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mark Salzman wrote Iron and Silk, a recollection of his years as an English teacher in Changsha. Next spring he will produce a novel, tentatively titled Journey to the West, that mixes Chinese myth and actuality. And next month will bring The Great Black Dragon Fire, by veteran journalist Harrison Salisbury. The fire was not fiction; it occurred in 1987, and it burned a Manchurian forest "so large that, like China's Great Wall, it could have been seen from the moon...
...many places racial antagonism is sharpening rather than abating -- a process that politicians, both white and black, have at times exacerbated. Republican TV spots on the Willie Horton case in last year's presidential campaign tapped white fears. The upsurge of drug-related urban violence, says Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, "has rekindled in people's minds the connection between blacks and violent crime." - Affirmative action has provoked a second-generation backlash, particularly among working-class whites. In combining the roles of protest leader and political candidate, Jesse Jackson stokes this fear with his demands for "economic justice...
...Kessler '71, Rebecca Klatek, Jane Stein '71, Nathan L. Goldshlag '71, Mark R. Dyer '70-'72, Joshua Freeman '70, Katha Pollitt '71, James H.Barton '58, Katherine K. Christoffel '69, Naomi A. Schapiro '71, Tom Christoffel (HLS '70), Ken Barnes '70, Judy Lieberman '69, Susan B. McLane '71, Judy L. Harrison, Peter S. wiss, Keith Nelson '65, Judith Larzelere, Kenneth Kronenberg, James klein '71, Paul Robins '70, Norman Daniels '71, Robert Krim '70, Samuel Baker '69, Jared Israel '65-'67, Miles Rapoport '71, John C. Berg (GSAS '75), Milton Kotelchuck (GSAS '72), Bruce C. Allen...
...Harrison says students wanted a department--rather than a committee--because it could hire its own professors and make course decisions. In addition, the students wanted to create an activist department that would grant them a measure of control over their education, he says...
...origins certainly did make life difficult for the department in the beginning. There definitely was the desire that an Afro-American Department should be much more activist oriented than other departments," says Harrison. "That has very clearly been resolved in favor of a more traditional conception of an academically oriented department...