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Dont Ask Dont Gays In The Military
1,380 wordsLauren Stewart Government 2301 December 7, 200! GAYS IN THE MILITARY! In 1994 there was a debate at the White House, which wanted to let gays serve in the military openly, yet Congress and the military did not. The compromise protected homosexuals in uniform as long as they didnt flaunt their sexual orientation. In the eighties and nineties, gays have mobilized to seek civil rights protections from the National Government. In the United States, questions of basic civil rights and liberties are o...
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Hall Of Fame Straight Man
577 wordsIn 1931, at Empire theater in New York City, Lou Costello and his crew grew worried that they would not be able to find a replacement for his straight man who became ill and was unable to perform. Fortunately, a fellow by the name of Bud Abbott was working the box office at the theater and offered to substitute. These two men performed so well together that Abbott played straight man to Costello's buffoon from then on. William Bud Alexander Abbott, the clown in the straight man /clown relationsh...
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T Ask Don T Gays In The Military
1,481 wordsGAYS IN THE MILITARY! Lauren Stewart Government 2301 December 7, 20! GAYS IN THE MILITARY! In 1994 there was a debate at the White House, which wanted to let gays serve in the military openly, yet Congress and the military did not. The compromise protected homosexuals in uniform as long as they didn? t flaunt their sexual orientation. In the eighties and nineties, gays have mobilized to seek civil rights protections from the National Government. In the United States, questions of basic civil rig...
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Negro Dialect Helen Vendler
1,603 wordsOn " Negro Minstrelsy" In The Dream Songs On " Negro Minstrelsy" In The Dream Songs William Wasserstrom What distinguishes a dream song, therefore, is not a coquetry or a clumsiness of art, as Toynbee argued, but a rather capital thing, the discovery that American minstrelsy long ago devised a formula which could transmit the mood of an idea and simultaneously conceal its reason. This discovery enabled Berryman to create what Lowell calls a " waking hallucination, "...
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Negro Dialect Helen Vendler
1,844 wordsRobert Lowell (1964) [Lowells review was important for Berryman: it appeared in the New York Review of Books and at the height of Lowells own achievement For the Union Dead had just been published. Lowell was at times baffled, irritated and dismayed by the poems, and when he offered support, it was remarkably tentative... His descriptions would set the tone for other reviewers. When eulogizing Berryman in 1972, Lowell blurted out: " 77 Dream Songs are harder than most hard modern poetry, th...
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