Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on rest & recuperation for servicemen [Dec. 22] was interesting, but the pictures were heartbreaking. How horrible for a wife to see full color pictures of what is available to her husband on an R & R. My husband is a rated major in the U.S.A.F. and will be in Viet Nam this time next year. A year of separation is hard enough in itself, but to have it rubbed in as to what he could be doing is enough to cause depression and worry on our part. Granted, they need a rest and recuperation period and are fortunate...
...declaring "We shall overcome," was the emotional high point of his presidency to date. His speech at Howard University in June 1965, calling on Americans "to shatter forever not only the barriers of law and public practice, but the walls which bound the condition of many by the color of his skin," was a rousing call to action...
Splotches of color danced and melted into each other on the walls. From the silhouetted forms of musicians onstage, archaic strains of medieval chansons overlapped with the thumps and twangs of contemporary rock. At the side, electronic sounds erupted from a glittering electronic synthesizer that resembled a far-out version of the Radio City Music Hall's mighty Wurlitzer. Not surprisingly, the program notes listed a consulting psychologist...
...clock construction, Cooke's Forum opened on schedule. Despite the breakneck speed with which it went up, the colonnaded, Roman-style structure, designed by Los Angeles-based Charles Luckman Associates, is distinguished by its spectator-pleasing efficiency. For one thing, the arena has gone all out for color coding. On their arrival for the opening hockey game between the Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, fans holding yellow tickets, for example, found that they parked their cars in a yellow-designated lot. They entered the arena at a yellow gate and passed through a yellow tunnel to the yellow section...
Edwin H. Land 30, president of Cambridge's Polaroid Corporation, was also named to receive a medal. He developed the Land Polaroid camera, studied color vision, and contributed to color television...