Word: clement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Detail for Detail. That hint of arrogance hurt Stokes. His campaign manager, Dr. Kenneth Clement, was to rue later: "A lot of people who did not like the idea of a Negro mayor were waiting for an excuse to vote against him." It was not merely an error but a near calamity. In the early opinion polls Stokes had led Taft by 30 points and more. Now he was running scared. He dropped his supercilious needling and swung into substantive issues. To answer his opponent's charge that he had been a poor legislator, Stokes produced a testimonial that...
Died. Dr. Rufus E. Clement, 67, Negro educator and president of Atlanta University since 1937; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Told in 1940 by an Atlanta cop that he would be shot entering a whites-only area, Clement replied: "If I get shot, I'll get shot in the back." That brand of mettle led him to reject Booker T. Washington's philosophy that Negro education should be aimed at vocational skills; instead, he gave A.U. intellectual aims to make it the best of its kind...
...spectators. Only 150 invited friends and relatives gathered in London's historic Temple Church for a brief Anglican ceremony in honor of the man who had shaped the political destiny of postwar Britain. Though his ashes later will be interred in Westminster Abbey, the simple funeral fitted Clement Richard Attlee, who died at 84 of pneumonia...
...Died. Clement R. Attlee, 84, architect of the modern welfare state in Britain; of pneumonia; in London (see THE WORLD...
...fallout into fashion and decor-from op dresses and psychedelic posters to Andy Warhol soup-can glasses and kitchen design-is by nature transitory does not bother him. Using art as home decoration, he argues, "gives it a broader base." Nor is he overly moved by critics such as Clement Greenberg, who laments that too-happy acceptance of the new has killed the tradition of the avantgarde. Greenberg complains that the days of the great innovators are gone, that pop, op and minimal are not true avant-garde art, but merely "novelty art." The only thing that can save high...