Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers did not hesitate to take TIME to task. Some complained about color pictures of Viet Nam casualties; many were appalled at what they saw as a growing permissiveness in just about every section. One reader was even disturbed by a picture of mating linden-bugs that ran in Science. "And after the housefly, what?" she asked. "The housewife...
Comparing color schemes, peering into closets, peeking at the view from every room, the Richard Nixons looked like any other householders casing the premises. With a difference. The Nixons' dreamhouse really is one. It comprises 132 rooms-"big enough for two emperors, one pope and the grand lama," as Thomas Jefferson observed-offers every convenience from a heated swimming pool to greenhouses and painless gardens, on 18 pristine acres of priceless downtown D.C. real estate. And it evokes some of the richest moments of American history. It may take some getting used...
...ascendancy of color over black-and-white TV has now been established. Last year, for the first time, Americans bought more color-TV sets (5,800,000) than black-and-white (5,500,000), bringing the total of color-owning households to 19 million, or one out of every three in the U.S. Those homes, according to Nielsen, tune in an extra 42 minutes a day. The national average in 1968: 5 hours and 46 minutes...
...ethos?a powerful family bond, a tradition of faith in education?and a different kind of hope. He could aspire to follow in the footsteps of the Irish, the Italian and the German immigrant, who had preceded him out of the ghetto into middle-class success. Because of his color, the black man had no such expectation...
...take out of Glen Campbell. His home town, Billstown, Ark., is about as country as you can get. The downtown section still consists of a grocery store, where Rastus Williamson sits on the feed sacks and talks to Sewell and Sissy Dabbs all day long every Saturday. Color television has come to town, though - in the form of the set that Glen gave his parents for Christmas. This week, in fact, relatives and friends will be gathered at the Campbell home to watch the premiere of a new weekly CBS program: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour...