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...think until we get past that whole thing of making a point of saying "Sec? I'm using a black man, I've got my quota," nothing can be done. Because as long as that's a problem, people are going to go out to find the blackest, most obvious person. And we come in all sizes, shapes, and shades...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Genet's The Blacks: A Director's Viewpoint | 2/5/1970 | See Source »

...blacks, society's deviants of all kinds." More than half of Livingston's 750 students are black or Puerto Rican, and nearly all of them are poor. Horowitz can rap with them-and they with him. As one of his Negro students said recently: "Irv is the blackest of any white man around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The New Sociology | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...rate at which they learn to read by more than 24%. Meanwhile, a new stress on writing and new math has livened up teaching throughout the country. The loudest reaction, perhaps, came from Education Secretary Edward Short who declared: "The publication of the Black Paper was one of the blackest days for education in the last 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Abroad: Raging Against Reform | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...almost psychotic New York milieu of impending violence. The plot is to get the passive fiance to marry the all-American daughter of a middle-class family, but the point is social satire that brings treacherously light-hearted laughter, despite Jules Feiffer's attempt at the blackest of comedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 5, 1969 | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

Harvard's loss to Leander was only one part of the blackest day for America in several years at Henley: seven United States entries had survived until the final two rounds last Saturday; only one, a Virginia high-school eight, won any championship that afternoon...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Harvard Lights Beaten at Henley | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

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