Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Letter Writer Ryan's backhanded compliment to Negro athletes [Feb. 24] misses a sociological point. There has always been a hierarchy of emerging nationalities in American professional sports: the Irish in the '20s, the Italians and Jews in the '30s, the Negroes in the '50s and '60s. That the number of colored champions is disproportionate to the number of Negroes in America is not evidence of physical superiority and mental inferiority, but of the fact that the choice of opportunity is limited for Negroes and that they must try their luck in the rewarding...
...student body that includes not only bearded beats but rising young lawyers and mod yet earnest matrons. Among the most popular offerings are the New School's highly regarded art courses. Among its best-known alumnae is Eleanor Roosevelt, who studied there in the late '20s. While starring as the attorney-hero of television's The Defenders, Actor E. G. Marshall studied law at the New School. Even so astute a politician as Tammany Leader J. Raymond Jones enrolled last year in its popular Center for New York City Affairs, where courses are led by such experts...
...POPULAR DUKE ELLINGTON (RCA Victor). "Popular" refers not only to the Duke but in this instance to these compositions that will forever be the background music of the '20s, '30s and '40s-classics like Sophisticated Lady, Solitude, I Got It Bad and Take the "A" Train. The Duke's piano is smoothly articulate and the new performances by his virtuoso orchestra are moody and melting...
...there is one kind of saloon where the post-college girl in her 20s enters without trepidation-although having a roommate along helps. This is the fast-growing institution known as the "dating bar," which deliberately seeks the patronage of single males and females by providing the ambiance of a cocktail party mixed with the nostalgic roar of a fraternity blast...
...event that finally brought Hammarskjold inner peace was his sudden, unexpected elevation to U.N. Secretary-General in 1953. An entry in Markings, about the time of his reelection to a second term, shows a strong affirmation of the faith he had abandoned while he was still in his 20s: "Yes to God; yes to Fate; yes to yourself." Between his diplomatic chores, Hammarskjold began translating the writings of Martin Buber into Swedish, and the pages of Markings are increasingly strewn with quotes from the Bible...