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...Senior stud tailback Maurice White has already accumulated an astonishing 402 total yards, averaging 131.7 yards a game and 6.0 yards a carry. If that isn’t impressive enough, the Leopards are stacked at the running back position. All-league fullback Joe Russo and junior backup Tyrell Coon are more than capable of filling in for White. Handing the ball off will be junior quarterback Rob Curley, who won the starting position halfway through the 2007 season. So far, he has done an adequate job, passing for a modest 450 yards and four touchdowns...
...than the firestorm began. Accused of promoting "social equality," which some feared would encourage intermarriage of white women and black men, Roosevelt was widely villainized. In particular, the thought of race mixing at the highest levels made white Southerners apoplectic. Newspaper headlines roared Roosevelt Dines A Darkey and Our Coon-Flavored President. South Carolina Senator Ben Tillman said, "The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again...
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...album also showed that Charles could lay his tortured vocal style on such chestnuts as the Arlen-Mercer ?Come Rain or Come Shine? and Irving Berlin?s ?Alexander?s Ragtime Band.? That?s an amazing cut. Written as a ?coon song? (minstrel number) in 1911, Charles made it a black song; he transformed this antique march into a big-band raver. The band (Burns did the brassy, bluesy charts) plays the melody and Charles comes in an antiphonal bar later, bleating "Come on an' hear!" By the end of the chorus he's quoting his own "This Little Girl...
...value for the mind". These words of President Lowell in his address at the Boston University graduation yesterday reiterate, by antithesis, the proper relation of teacher and student. The effective teacher can make learning attractive but cannot remove its intrinsic difficulties. The pupil without will to break his co coon cannot comprehend the most lucid of expositions...