I know that cannot – would not reasonably – be the case anymore, but it felt so special reading The Modern, knowing you, having known you, for some of the time that you were writing it. Against postmodernism, you as author were so alive to me in this. I wanted to buy a copy i...
the US has attempted to smear and block the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the initiative of advancing Belt and Road cooperation, among others, in multilateral fora and also to remove references to them in UN and other intern...
But I’m looking forward to it, because after a year or so in which most of my writing has been for editors, for money, pitching sensible essays that make some broadly comprehensible point, I’m excited to have the kind of space in which I could maybe do a cheeky Nando’s again. Ei...
Almost all of legal segregation’s last defenders are dead and buried, but their children and heirs –literal and metaphorical– are still very much among us. Is it fair, then, to worry that the Shelby County challenge is Jim Crow’s first step out of the grave? Would we find it as ...
same thing in this case. As the Klansman rounded the corner of the bed and came closer to me, I began to try to pray aloud. I strained against the paralysis, only able to moan rather than speak clearly what I wanted to: “JESUS! IN THE NAME OF JESUS!” Still, I kept struggling ...
While we seem to take several steps forward with progress toward the LGBTQ community, we can’t help but to beckon the days of segregation with acts like those of the Charleston shooter, the policy in McKinney, Texas, and other situations. While I never have all the facts, and in some ...
astringent中的STRING,也作STRICT,源自拉丁语,意为to draw tight, bind或tie,这两个词根同时也是两个基本英语单词;前缀A-的含义很多,可以表示加强(abide, arise, awake),可以表示on, in, to, into之意(afoot = on foot, aside = to one side, aback = backward, abed = in bed, asunder = into pieces...
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The country's optimism proved warranted in 1953 when Salk successfully tested his experimental vaccine on himself and his own family. 1954: SCHOOL SEGREGATION BANNED U.S. Army // Wikimedia Commons 1954: 'SCHOOL SEGREGATION BANNED' In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme ...
Famed attorney Clarence Darrow was hired to plead their case, but Darrow proved less capable than O.J.'s dream team—the pair was convicted and sentenced to life, as reported by The Omaha Evening Bee on Sept. 10, 1924. You may also like: Oldest cities in America...