He rose in local politics in the 1960s and ’70s by nurturing crosscultural connections, even as many other Southern leaders of his era exploited racial division.
Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102
The list of well-known writers he represented is long. But his success began with an unknown named Jack Kerouac and his hard-to-sell novel “On the Road.”
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Marilyn Loden, Who Championed a Feminist Metaphor, Dies at 76
She was asked to speak at a conference in 1978 about barriers faced by women in the workplace. She noted a barrier she called “the glass ceiling.”
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How Gorbachev Changed the World
Mikhail S. Gorbachev set out to reform the Soviet Union. But the social and economic forces he unleashed ended up destroying it.