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Parallels can be drawn between Jardan's national leadership and the leadership of the Black community at Harvard. As Jordan loves to potrary one Black people struggling together for progress. So Black organizations on campus often seek to portray their specific needs at an elite university as representative of the problems of Blocks everywhere...
Black CAST (before becoming independently recognizable, stood for Community and Student Theater) tries to produce shows that concern community life and "portray Blacks as they would like to be portrayed in the community," says vice president Kevin Porter...
...must fill her book with all the negative roles of white American society and Black American culture and then illustrate how these roles conflict with the real woman underneath. Sadly for her, she cannot. Her increased socialization drained the soul from most of her prose; the people she does portray seem like stilted mannequins...
Siddhartha Mazumdar's editorial, "Working Class Zero" puzzles me. While Mr. Mazumdar seems to draw on his own experience as a dishwasher to portray his fellow worders as rather dehumanized by their work, the overall effect is to mock these people. One has the impression that the author's real concern is not that Cara, Gregory and Jim have boring jobs, but that he should be forced to sully himself with their company. I recall one of my professors at this university who, although known as a great liberal and humanist, once blasted the entire population of South Boston...
...Buddy, his doctor and his lawyer--who also happen to be his best friends--set out to find the ideal surrogate mate. And although the advertisements for this film somewhat distastefully portray Burt Reynolds claiming "He wants you to have his baby," Buddy is not about to settle for anyone. The screening process for the mother-to-be provides some of the movie's most humorous moments, including a disgustingly (not sexually) funny scene in a butcher shop with Toni Kalem and an exquisite sequence of events with the striking Lauren Hutton. From the start, however, it is too obvious...