Word: aliens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White leadership, when it emerges, is hardly white, and it is possible only when whites have the talent and time to become black. It takes time to become a part of any community. But when one is physically and culturally alien, then it takes a great deal of time. In the southern Movement and in SNCC, there are so many in-and-out, summer vacation whites, so many who do not know the meanings of white, who forget that, because they are white, they will have to prove themselves time and time again before they...
...ears, as they were to yours, than the words of racial prejudice which escaped from inside the Hall. As a participant in the Washington March on August 28th, and as a chairman of a civil rights group at my secondary school, I do not find words of freedom alien. But just as I believe that the two sides of the story I am involved in should be presented, so I honestly contend that all sides of the civil rights question should be heard...
...days Dallas had all the sophistication, and Houston was a "whisky and trombone town"; the orchestra played Old Black Joe for encores. Leopold Stokowski was hired in the cultural offensive of 1955, and though he greatly improved the orchestra during his 51-year tenure, he also proved himself hopelessly alien to the strange culture of the far west. He called Houston "Hooston," and his chauffeur, in poetic inability to say "Maestro," called the boss "Moscow." When Sir John arrived, things were different. Anglo-Texan friendship was immediately established...
...stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Though they may be viewed as slightly alien creatures, the Harvard cross country team should therefore have very little trouble in dispensing with the Dartmouth runners at Hanover today. In their last 11 meetings with Harvard, the Indians have managed only two victories, and last year suffered a 17-46 pasting...