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...beyond reliable reconstruction. For a short time, while attending Colgate, Powell passed for white and was heard to say of his fair complexion: "It's some kind of joke-white folks think I'm black and black folks think I'm white." Powell sought to confirm his blackness in his book Marching Blacks, published in 1945. He expressed pride in his runaway-slave grandfather who in his late years still bore a scar inflicted by an angry slave owner. Powell's father came to New York City in 1908-the year Adam Jr. was born...
...Communists' Easter concessions were timed to place maximum pressure on West Germany to confirm the treaties of Warsaw and Moscow, which will be submitted to the Bundestag in early May. Unless Bonn ratifies the treaties, the Berlin agreement, and its clauses about freer access, will not go into effect. Hence, the East Germans and their Soviet supporters in effect were saying: "See, this is how it is going to be if the treaties are ratified. If they aren't, forget it." The Communists have hinted that the situation will get worse if Bonn fails to follow through...
...your issue of March 14 you published a report by Mark Frazier that upper-income condominiums might be built on the JFK Library site, and you quoted me as a member of the Neighborhood 10 Association who confirmed that report. Since I am not a member of that group I am not in a position to confirm the report, nor to speak for the Association. Specifically, I cannot state that the Association plans to fight any upper income or high-rise housing that might be constructed, although I certainly hope that it will, along with many other people in this...
...Nevelson manages, by prolonged and single-minded concentration on work, to annul the prejudice against women, it is assumed that she has "transcended the limits" of her sexual class. Thus Nevelson's austere and formidable constructions like Black Crescent, in the very act of "escaping" the stereotype, may confirm it for others. As Art Critic Barbara Rose points out in a recent book on Helen Frankenthaler, her work was routinely patronized for its "feminine" qualities: "Judged by the norms ... of the prevailing de Kooning style that Frankenthaler rejected, her art was seen as reckless, thin, uncontrolled, uncomposed, lacking...
...denied the rumor. McGovern himself vehemently denied the claim, and Mankiewicz called the rumor "scandalous." Even Dick Stewart, in Muskie's press room, said that no one in the Muskie office had any knowledge of the letters; at the same time no one on Muskie's staff would either confirm nor deny that they had leaked the story. The leak exemplified the most vile kind of political ploy: a rumor for which no one will take credit channeled to the press. The word gets out, it gets into print, and yet no one-in this case in the Muskie Headquarters...