Word: walkerism
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...table tents are created weekly so three new scientists can be profiled each week. Last week, when the table tents first went up, they featured Madame C. J. Walker, a hair-care product inventor who became a self-made millionaire; Edward A. Bouchet, the first African-American to receive a doctorate from an American university with his physics Ph.D. from Yale; and Granvile T. Woods, who invented the steam boiler furnace and an automatic air brake used to stop trains...
...take issue with Gray's statement that Morrison is "the author who almost single-handedly gave African-American women their rightful place in American literature." That view heedlessly erases the numerous African-American women writers--Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Octavia Butler and Carolivia Herron among them--who, as Morrison's sisters, have brilliantly contributed to contemporary African-American letters. THOMAS GRAVE Providence...
...only do first-years lack their traditional support networks of parents and old friends, but there is only the shadow of an advising structure. For some freshmen there is no one with whom to share the intense pain and loneliness of that first miserable year other than Johnny Walker or Cider Jack, two patient listeners...
...list of Bunting fellows reads like a who's who of achieving women," Brock said. "Anne Sexton was in the first Bunting class and Tillie Olsen in the second. Alice Walker also wrote her first novel at the Institute," Brock said...
...hope that the Faculty will have the strength to stay with it through criticisms like those of the editors. --E. Davis Walker...