Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall into disarray. There are no obvious, immediate challengers to Abernathy. S.C.L.C.'s executive vice president, the Rev. Andrew Young, is more nearly on King's intellectual level than is Abernathy, but he is light-skinned and strikes some Negroes as too remote. Another aide, the Rev. Bernard Lee, is so outspokenly hostile to whites that his accession might dry up S.C.L.C.'s funds...
This month, Rhody McCoy, administrator of the project, attempted to transfer 13 teachers and six supervisors out of the schools. His only explanation for this action was that the educators had tried to "sabotage" the experiment and had "lost the confidence of the community." School Superintendent Bernard E. Donovan at once ordered them back to class. When they tried to return, angry parents blocked their way. Most of Brownsville's 9,000 students then boycotted classes, turning instead to makeshift "freedom schools" organized by parents' organizations...
History has tended to side with Byron. Nonetheless, buried beneath West's studied claptrap lurks considerable native talent. This gift shines forth in an exhibit of 36 rarely seen drawings, many of them owned until recently by descendants of the painter in England, now at Manhattan's Bernard Black Gallery. Since the drawings are mostly landscapes or sketches for larger compositions, the gallery placed them, wherever possible, next to a photocopy of the finished work. The demonstration is plain: as West's ideas progressed from initial draft to finished sketch to final oil, faces froze, bodies puffed...
...ally, and of provoking air raids on Britain so that he could retaliate with mass bombings on German cities (TIME, May 10). Now Author Thompson, a British journalist turned war historian, says that Churchill, to save his own skin, fashioned a hero out of a so-so soldier named Bernard Law Montgomery. This will be news to those who have always felt that Field Marshal Montgomery alone was responsible for that singular achievement...
...memorandum, issued by General Bernard T. Franck, an assistant to Hershey, says that on March 11 Hershey met with "a number of representatives of graduate schools," in part to discuss "a proposal submitted by the group concerning the status of a young man who is ordered for induction while in graduate school...