Word: born
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoppes are not happy. The world they were born to, a white world of upward mobility based on hard work, has been threatened by the storms of social change They now find it an incomprehensible world of yippies and hippies, riots, crime and inconclusive war, and they long for solutions couched in phrases that they can understand and relate to themselves. Their quiet protest, voiced in tones of dismay and bewilderment rather than anger, has led them to espouse George Wallace. The candidate from Alabama expresses their ideas as though he has read their minds...
Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
...black-managed self-help corporation that now runs two African-style dress shops, one in a white suburb, plus a clothing factory, a gas station, a printing company, and a school for pride, black culture and job training. 1 Smith, the greatest source for pride is that Bootstrap was born and now lives without handouts from a Government agency. Says he: "Change is going to come in this country, and it's going to come from the bottom...
...music comment on society? To the extent that electronic sounds suggest the dissonances in everyday life? Perhaps. But, as Italian-born Composer Luciano Beno says, music "cannot lower the cost of bread. It is incapable of stopping wars, it cannot eradicate slums and injustice." Granting that much, Beno, a leading innovator of musical forms, refuses to accept the conventional barriers. He is appalled that composers today seem to regard music as an isolated phenomenon, created in a vacuum for the "greater glory of musical systems."" Never before, he says, "has the composer come so dangerously close to becoming an extraneous...
...authoritative mariner's manual. Did he look like a rollicking seafarer or a pinch-faced accountant? How pretty was Charlotte Cushman, the American stage's most beguiling actress of the 1840s?Gold was first discovered in California at Sutler's Mill, but who was this German-born idealist, John A. Sutter? And what was his appearance after the gold rush had, paradoxically enough, ruined...