Word: conner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the London blitz, Barrister Cyril Conner retained a serene confidence in his country's future. It was his daughter's future that concerned him. "Promise me something," he asked the smashing little redhead. "Promise me you'll never marry a saxophonist from Budapest...
...phrase "civil rights" at the close of the decade? Civil rights -a password that once symbolized a whole mass of emotions, politics. tactics and humanitarian creeds. Civil rights - a movement, a march in the sunlight, a bundle of legislative acts promising a great society. Civil rights -goodbye to Bull Conner and all that...
...break apart the components of "the big lie." Pusey says we call Harvard hopelessly bigoted. This, as it intends, summons images of Birmingham. Alabama, and Sheriff Bull Conner spitting juice from his "Mail Pouch" chewing tobacco. And of course Pusey is right, Harvard does not look like that. It wears a coat and tie, and on a bread-based scale, is less reprehensible than some other forces in society. But racism is practiced here, in its liberal dress. A prime example is the issue of the painter's helpers...