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Dates: during 1960-1969
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None of these attacks, however, has been directed against the Corps' program. The opponents have been content to criticize Powell for employing his own assistant, for serving as incorporator, and for renting the Powell Center (the back half of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, of which Powell is rector...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Rep. Powell and the 'Peace Corps' | 3/23/1963 | See Source »

...times this season in New York and on the Met's seven-city tour. On March 23 the performance will be broadcast, and on April 7 McCracken will sing two arias and two duets from the opera over ABC-TY's Voice of Firestone. He is quite content to let Wagnerian heroes' roles await him while he plays out his fascination with Otello. "I love Otello." he says. "It's done so much for me that I'd hate to say another is my favorite role. Putting out those tones-boy oh boy, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: A Day's Work | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...Negroes' plight might be to threaten them. "The longer you work for Civil Rights, the more radical you become," a Negro leader mused recently. "You begin to realize that white people who are supposed to be on your side aren't even listening to what we say. They're content to let things remain as they are while they talk about progress, or say 'isn't it a shame' and then forget about the whole thing...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Negroes With Guns | 3/16/1963 | See Source »

...whatever excitement about events at his University may be engendered in the national press, the typical Illinois student remains uncerned. I found that all but a few seemed perfectly content with comfortable orthodoxy and had almost no interest in international or national affairs, or in politics on any level...

Author: By Robert E. Wall, | Title: University of Illinois: The State Prevails | 3/16/1963 | See Source »

...plays Mama Hirsch, a Westchester matron of the affluent diaspora displaced from The Bronx. Mama Hirsch is not content to throw her weight around; she shot-puts her entire family. Her daughter (Jill Kraft) lands on a psychoanalyst's couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Neither Gyp nor Gem | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

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