Word: connorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned an awful lot about meeting and getting to know people," assistant coach Terry O'Connor said yesterday. And McLaughlin chipped in. "You can't put a dollar value on the exposure and the public relations generated. We had the chance to be diplomats...
...Connor explained that it was in many ways an eye-opening experience. "We went to a commune. People there are born, live and die on that commune. There's no picking up and moving in China. There's little night life. The people go to sleep at 9 p.m. and are up at 5 in the morning--to farm...
...Birmingham, Ala., blacks have elected a black mayor and wield much more power than in the days of the celebrated civil rights crusades. Yet black anger at the white-dominated police force is almost as intense as it was when Police Commissioner Bull Connor and his snarling dogs gained national notoriety...
...about to take four months out of a schedule almost as fully packed as he is to star in Yes, Giorgio, a comedy about an Italian singer who falls in love with an American woman. Carol Burnett produced paper and pen for his autograph, Carroll O'Connor emerged from his Archie Bunker to demonstrate a sensitive knowledge of opera, and Grant, using the word that any Cary impersonator can deliver, told Pavarotti the film would be "terrific." Luciano, sipping Campari and soda, was as excited as the guests. "I didn't sleep all night," he insisted. "These people...
...whole. The longer the fight goes on, the more public support for repressive policies will diminish. Remember the pictures of Black children in their Sunday best cowering in front of snarling dogs? So does everyone else--and those images and others like them eventually proved the downfall of Bull Connor and his ilk. Beating the non-violent is a horrible thing to do; people come to realize this, and if it takes months of getting beaten, then that is the price. The effect is muted, if not reversed when those on the receiving end are wearing helmets and gas masks...