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...Stansky and Abrahams (authors of the 1972 biographical study The Unknown Orwell). Blair was feeling his way as a minor novelist, self-absorbed and "unremittingly nonpolitical." By the time Eric fully became George, he was passionately political in every line. The transformation was triggered by the poverty, unemployment and neglect he saw while researching The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). Then the Spanish Civil War confirmed his vision of a new socialist order-and gave him an education in the treachery of internecine politics. In between these experiences, he married his first wife, a bright, game girl named Eileen...
...about who you know," he continues. Rivers emphasizes that the movie Black at Yale was not only his story, but the story of countless Blacks. "A lot of them are a lot more intelligent than 90 per cent of the graduating class at Harvard," but because of oppression and neglect by society they have ended up in gutters, prisons, or graveyards. "These people have no breaks, no money--they are invisible people." His story is their story, he repeats...
Lenz contrasts he United States' neglect of the hammer throw with its popularity in Europe and Russia, where the hammer is a "glamorous event, "Lenz says. "In Russia everybody wants to be a hammer thrower," he adds. "Imagine if all our Mean Joe Greens decided to throw hammers instead of footballs...
...husband and executor, Critic John Middleton Murry, set out to canonize her as "the most wonderful writer and most beautiful spirit of our time." As Antony Alpers shows in this sturdy, sensible book, Murry's hagiography was as much a disservice as the excessive imitation, dismissal and neglect that later overtook...
Lastly, given the history of exclusion; the neglect of traditions, values, foods, languages, experiences, and cultures; and the general alienation of Third World students at Harvard-Radcliffe, the University must make the needs of its Third World community, and hence the institutionalization of a Third World Center, a priority consistent with its commitment to diversity...