Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fought vehemently for abolition. Just as these Northern whites chose to ignore Douglass (no doubt feeling that they knew better than he), so does Robert Conway ignore the sentiments of men like Nelson Mandela, the late Steven Biko, and the late Nobel Prize Winner and African National Congress Chairman Albert J. Luthuli, who has said. "The economic boycott of South Africa will entail undoubted hardship for Africans. We do not doubt that. But if it is a method which shortens the day of blood, the suffering to us will be a price we are willing...
Cranston likes to talk about a meeting with the late scientist Albert Einstein at the close of World War II, when the Californian said he first began to speak out against the nuclear arms race. But, he added, "I didn't get any attention until I became a Presidential candidate...
...lifeless campaign's most inspired moment, in fact, may have been its last, the work of former Governor Albert ("Happy") Chandler, 85. When Collins' victory speech had rambled on too long. Chandler sidled up to the microphone. Kentucky voters, he said, should be proud to have elected a woman so "well trained and well educated." Then, smiling and sweet-voiced, he softly began to sing My Old Kentucky Home. The crowd joined...
...muse about war games last week. The real thing, with its blood and terror, was ripping up yet another patch of Lebanon. As the powers squared off and the battle lines blurred, the entire country sometimes seemed fated to disappear in the flames of Middle East passion. French Author Albert Camus once observed that one is always too generous with the blood of others. Lately, the world has been too generous with the blood of the people in Lebanon. -By James Kelly. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and William Stewart/Tripoli
...accompanying stories.) Karl Marx was reassessed in 1948, Vladimir Lenin in 1964 and their ideological opposites Adam Smith, in 1975, and John Maynard Keynes, in 1965. In the arts, William Shakespeare (1960) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1968) have been so treated; in science, Sigmund Freud (1956) and Albert Einstein...