Word: amerian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...something resembling this revolutionary mystique that Stokely Carmichael and a few others are trying to impose on the Amerian Negro movement. Mixed with the anarchical slogans of "Burn, baby, burn!" and "Tear down the courthouses," there is a calculated conviction that violence is above all else a language, and that this language, through fear, will persuade white society to give things to the Negro that it would not otherwise give. Says Lester Mc-Kinney, Washington head of S.N.C.C.: "In the minds of the people, history has proved that any meaningful social change has come through a bloody revolution." Many Negro...
What is "appropriate"? A cookbook of early Amerian recipes set in the Baskerville type of the colonial period is appropriate. The cover of a brochure for modern Knowles furniture which destroys our perception of the letter K and transforms it into a bending dynamic structure is appropriate. The NH symbol on a New Haven railway car, though it can be perceived in several ways (for example, with the figure-ground relationships of the letters changing), nevertheless strongly resists abstraction into its component parts. For a whizzing box car, that is appropriate...
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