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Robert Franklin Williams
Robert F. Williams 1925— Civil rights and political activist World War II Proletarian Poet A Call to Arm... Read more |
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey , 1774-1843, English author. Primarily a poet, he was numbered among the so-called Lake poets. While at Oxford he formed (1794) a friendship with Coleridge and joined with him in a plan for an American utopia along the Susquehanna River that was never actualized. Southey married in... Read more |
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Womens rights
WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT This entry includes 2 subentries: The Nineteenth CenturyThe Twentieth Century The Nineteenth Century During the Colonial era and the first decades of the Republic, there were always women who strove to secure equal rights for themselves. Some assumed the business... Read more |
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Ronald M. Dworkin
Ronald Dworkin 1931-, American legal philosopher. b. Worcester, Mass. A professor at Yale University Law School (1962-69) and then professor of philosophy and jurisprudence in a joint appointment with New York Univ. and Oxford (1969-), Dworkin's work such as Taking Rights Seriously (1977) rejects... Read more |
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conquest
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS Founded in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), now part of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, was a critical institution linking together the African American community in the south and in the north. The union, composed entirely of... Read more |
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commune
commune , in medieval history, collective institution that developed in continental Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Because of the importance of the commune in municipal government, the term is also used to denote a town itself to which a charter of liberties was granted by the sovereign... Read more |
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Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin 1835-1913, English author, b. Leeds. Originally trained for a legal career, he eventually turned to writing and politics. From 1883-95 he edited the National Review. Although in 1896 he succeeded Tennyson as poet laureate, his poetry is negligible, and he was the butt of many... Read more |
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James Berry
James Berry 1925– Poet, children’s author Frustrated by Island Home Edited Anthology Began Writing for Children Selected writings Sources James Berry, who was born in Jamaica but moved to England as a young man, has helped to forge a new type of poetry that draws on... Read more |
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Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe 1860-1936, American editor, critic, and poet, b. Chicago. In 1912 she founded Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, which paid and encouraged both established and new poets. Monroe's literary reputation is based on her editorship of this important magazine. She introduced to readers such... Read more |
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bright
...radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining Looking for just the right word to capture the quality of the light on a moonlit night...striking brilliance (the sky was resplendent with stars). Poets also prefer adjectives like effulgent and refulgent, both of... |
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latent
...but teachers are usually quick to spot a potential artist or poet in the classroom. Dormant and quiescent are less frequently...inactive, but it is most commonly used as a noun (personal rights and privileges kept in abeyance until the danger had passed... |
 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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POETS IN MOTION: SLAM AMERICA CHRONICLES CROSS-COUNTRY ODYSSEY.(Pasatiempo)
...poetry in an array of voices. "Right now is an incredibly vibrant...Haiku Death Match,o where two poets vie for audience approval by...Yo Mama Samurai,o in which poets explore racist words and insulting...write poetry, a handful of poets answer that they have no choice...because I have to,o they ... |
 "Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME)")
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Poets rage, rage against Belfast official
...in the end she was the only poet to submit a letter of application...you as a longtime hardworking poet and artist," she said Wednesday...there just wouldn't be a poet laureate right now." In the Republican Journal...applause from the indignant poets in the audience. Hurley listened... |
 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Poets and politics
...opinions. On the other hand, some poets have been great rascals. We...brilliance or their eloquence. Poets are just ordinary people who...Utah State University and poet laureate of Utah: "You can...year, I submitted a poem to 'Poets Against the War' with 18...It's hard to judge what is ... |
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The poets' club
...with the Israeli Left. ISRAELI POETS identified with the Right - whether religiously or politically...the kind of young, spirited poets who have sprung up around the...Granted, there is a religious poet among festival participants...Hebrew and a good number of poets writing in Arabic it ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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POETS, POETS EVERYWHERE SHARON OLDS, THE NEW STATE POET, SEES HER ART IN ALL...
...8-year-old, you'd be right again. It comes from ``Song...As the sixth official state poet, Olds received the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for Poets at the gathering on Tuesday...America, and she'd put a poet in every elementary school and...are hundreds of thousands of poets in New York ... |
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POET SOFTWARE DEBUTS ELECTRONIC CATALOG VALIDATION SOFTWARE.(Product...
...often done by the IT department. Poet eSupplierPort centralizes purchasing...the purchasing department." Poet eSupplierPort ensures that the right products are purchased at contractually...extent and number of checkpoints. Poet eSupplierPort streamlines the... |
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THE LAST POETS, ANCESTORS OF RAP, TO HELP FIGHT RACISM.(Preview)
...The 1990s are the 1960s turned right side up. The wheel has turned...recording last year, from The Last Poets' most popular recording, "The Last Poets." Abiodun Oyewole likes some...Productions, but he said The Last Poets themselves should be coming...Abiodun Oyewole will be Last Poet ... |
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POETS' PROTEST CANCELS WHITE HOUSE FESTIVAL MRS. BUSH DECLARES FORUM...
...postponement of a Feb. 12 symposium on poets Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson...Wash., one of the invited poets, urged the others who had been...While Mrs. Bush understands the right of all Americans to express...toward Iraq. "I am asking every poet to speak up for the conscience...little they ... |
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Poet for the inauguration called a 'perfect fit' for an Obama presidency
...matter"; she's a "better poet" than the popular Angelou...20th century African-American poets. She has taught widely, including...Alexander is the youngest inaugural poet so far -- and part has to do...Beavers calls her "the absolute right choice, generationally speaking...generation of ... |
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`The Last Poets' Are Seen as Fathers of Rap
...Abayadune, The Last Poets often called their listeners...SYDELL: While The Last Poets were highly critical...American culture, says Poet David Nelson. DAVID NELSON, Last Poet Member: Martin Luther...could be called our civil rights movement, but there...SYDELL: When The Last Poets ... |
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