Word: cora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Superficially, middle-class blacks already seem to be living that dream. Leon and Cora Brooks have spent more than a decade at IBM, where he is a dealer account manager and she is a senior personnel specialist. They have a comfortable home in the affluent and mostly black Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Hills; they have a Mercedes in the garage and a daughter at California State University at Northridge. Leon Brooks jokes, "We're a typical white family that happens to be black...
...speech, sponsored by the History Department, was followed by a panel discussion with Jane Jenson of Carleton University, Cora Kaplan of Rutgers University and Susan Pedersen, an assistant professor of history at Harvard...
...incarnation of evil to generations of deliciously scared children; in Salisbury, Conn. Ironically, Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher before succumbing to the acting bug in 1932. She went on to portray dozens of stern spinsters, puritanical aunts and smarmy gossips, and was well known as the kindly storekeeper Cora in five years of Maxwell House coffee TV commercials...
...mean, but he's good," said Cora Mae Basnight, who played an Indian in the first staging of the work and who has had the supporting role of Agona, an Indian maiden, off and on since 1957. All seven of her children have been in the show. "Even so," Cora Mae went on, "I feel sorry for all those young girls; he just tears 'em up. Us old ones let it roll off our backs...
...conversation cited by University of Virginia philosopher Cora Diamond illustrates Dreben's intellectual approach...