Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legally enacted by the legislature . . . and interpose state sovereignty and themselves between the people of the state and any body politically seeking to usurp such power." In invoking the doctrine of "interposition," which has been held unconstitutional, Barnett declaimed that "there is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration," promised that "we will not drink from the cup of genocide" by submitting to "the tyranny of judicial oppression." For his part, he was willing to go to jail rather than accept Black's order. Furthermore, he advised "any official who is not prepared...
Orchids to TIME and to Photographer Halsman for including Madame Houphouet-Boigny among a gallery of reigning beauties. For the nation's colored races, it offers an example of "how to succeed in life without being Caucasian...
...Actor Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came the smelling salts, then the brandy. Ten minutes later the beetle-browed Welshman was back-and with a hangdog look, remounted the box to go on with the show. "I had forebodings about...
...title of "Readers' Exchange." As it developed, Hawaiians had plenty on their minds. A 22-year-old Chinese woman wrote that she had been a "walking zombie" since the death of her mother; her published letter produced a flood of sympathy, including an answer from an elderly haole (Caucasian) woman who had lost her husband. The bereaved young matron and the bereaved widow are now fast friends...
Heading the cast for this first show will be Jana Quigley, who appeared off-Broadway this season in Congreve's Love for Love and in the Harvard production of Caucasian Chalk Circle...