Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are three important things that happen in Cambridge around the middle of October each year. The leaves turn color. Midterms invariably roll around. And Harvard plays Dartmouth in football...
After two days the committee put up the money for the $25,000 bond and the police freed Hines. Mims later regretted that most of the committee membership is black: "It should not have a color line--this is not a black and white issue, it's an issue of human rights. Calling it black or white polarizes the community. The community should be together on this," he said...
...very convenient to have sex and color to pull on if everything else fails," Jordan added afterwards, at a reception for black students at Winthrop House, "We shouldn't use black as a crutch. I don't feel like hobbling on the crutch and making it an excuse for mediocrity...
...funds, funds for the self-employed), the legal issues over their control and use, and the pension investment strategies that the bankers and brokers have used. The main strength of the book is its detailed documentation of economic trends, quoting labor, Congressional and industrial leaders and analysts to add color to what could have been a very bleak subject.Even if Rifkin and Barber's next book, on the economic significance of the evangelical movement in the U.S., denotes a return to radical faddism, The North Will Rise Again will stand...
...Tolstoy and Chekhov. "I never forget," he maintains, "that I am only a storyteller." This insistence on the unities of plot and form has made Singer the greatest living 19th century writer and perhaps the only Nobel prizewinner with no pretensions whatever. The lively old figure, with eyes the color of the Israeli flag, dressed as for a formal walk on Warsaw's main street in 1928, has become a familiar one to shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West Side. The author's first words, when informed of the Nobel Prize, were typically effacing: "Are you sure...