Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primary-election night in Chicago, but what was the matter with everybody? Why no festivities, why not the usual arm pumping and back thumping? The hordes of loyal Democratic Party workers who gathered in the Sherman House hotel to await the returns were uncommonly solemn and silent. Ward bosses did not barge exuberantly into Mayor Richard Daley's tightly guarded inner office. They slunk in sheepishly or stayed away altogether...
...Officials of HEW, the arm of the Government that had for years pressured Southern school districts to desegregate, announced that they had lifted their threat to cut off federal funds from school districts that have not yet complied with civil rights laws-at least until Congress decides what to do about the President's antibusing legislation. Most immediately relieved was Maryland's Prince Georges County, which had been faced with the possible loss of some $14 million...
...drug-rehabilitation program in the Southeast Bronx, became aware of the gangs six months ago. He told TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt: "We had this street fair, selling sausages for a dime, sodas for a nickel. Well, these kids got in an argument with one of our people, broke his arm and all his fingers. Then they sent their girls over to tell us they wanted to fight us. Now, hell, I've been around. I was in gangs in the '50s. I was a junkie for 15 years before I kicked the habit. So we went over there...
...read at Oxford or Cambridge; such a stimulating intellectual atmosphere? Looking back, I am rather dubious about such reasoning. I'm afraid my imagination was busy populating the cricket-fields of those institutions of learning with the ubiquitous presence of countless Michael Yorks: tan and rugged, batter's arm swinging purposefully across the screen of Joseph Losey's "Accident," cricket whites emanating some holy light...
Many will approach this subject today expecting it to be an arm of Black Militancy. This is to ask this subject to perform a function inappropriate in an academic institution. Such a Department must be staffed by scholars who can get on with the job of pushing back the frontiers of this subject. A faculty of scholars protected by canons of academic freedom should exercise scholarly authority in such a Department. And what about the role of students, who have won the right to help govern Afro-American Studies Departments at Harvard and other universities? Certainly undergraduate students should have...