Word: checkerboarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps that all these people who called themselves custodians of education were merely spineless dolls with the guts of sawdust, living in pretense because they refused to accept life as it was? Was it that those who called themselves teachers were merely playing politics on an enclosed checkerboard and parroting the thoughts of the Dead Great because it gave them a vicarious importance and authority? Did America perhaps justly laugh at her teachers and humiliate them because they asked for it?" It is a challenge for teachers with a sense of responsibility, with a conscience...
...author of Porgy, far from providing here a crude checkerboard of right & wrong, shows a humane understanding of both blacks and whites, of liberator and deliberator. At its strongest, in the well-acted clashes between Denmark and George, the play becomes resonant and vivid. But, itself a slave to history, it sprawls and jerks across twelve years and ten scenes, and, lacking a center, becomes a lumpy mixture of chronicle, drama, melodrama and tragedy. What is most effective is the conflict between the two men, but what arouses most interest is the conflict within one of them. The main trouble...
...stateroom, when the radio message came. Martha Truman had died. When he had read the message, the President said: "Well, now she won't have to suffer any more." Dry-eyed and silent, he turned to gaze for a long time at the checkerboard countryside below...
Nervous excitement had swept the floor of the Palazzo Monte Citorio as the Assembly reached the Lateran question. Nobody but Togliatti and the Communists-and they were saving their surprise-was sure how the vote would divide. In the jammed public galleries there was a solemn checkerboard of Jesuit black, Franciscan brown, Dominican white-set off by the bright springtime pinks and blues of .snappily dressed women. The heads that craned forward were alternately tonsured and gaily feather-plumed...
Young Egypt. Last November, Dr. Walter Bryan Emery, British archeologist in the service of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, climbed a desert bluff at Sakkara within sight of the pyramids of Giza. Below lay the fertile checkerboard fields of the flat Nile valley. A few miles away peasants grazed their goats among the jumbled ruins of Memphis, first capital of Egypt...