Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp administrative capabilities of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins. He has none of the sophistication of the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., lacks Young's experience in dealing with high echelons of the U.S. business community. He has neither the inventiveness of CORE's James Farmer nor the raw militancy of SNICK's John Lewis nor the bristling wit of Author James Baldwin. He did not make his mark in the entertainment field, where talented Negroes have long been prominent, or in the sciences and professions where Negroes have, almost unnoticed, been coming...
...World by the Basques, who claim it as their native sport. The object is simple enough: players wearing basketlike cestas heave a ball against a wall until someone misses. But ah, the details. The court is about 200 ft. long; the ball is so hard (rubber core wound with nylon string, covered with goatskin) and goes so fast (up to 175 m.p.h.) that the front wall has to made of 12-in.-thick granite block-concrete would crack from the impact. The ricocheting angles are infinite, requiring incredible feats of agility, timing and strength. And there are times when just...
Those who huzzahed Goodman because he appeared to condone unrestricted promiscuity or sexual irresponsibility had, in their giggly enthusias, missed the core of his ethical credo. He considers himself "a highly moral man," and interpersonal responsibility, for him, precedes all other considerations...
...CIVIL RIGHTS. Day after day, prominent Negro leaders such as James Farmer of CORE, and Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League, went to the White House to discuss the stalled civil rights bill and job discrimination. When Dr. Martin Luther King called, American Nazi Party members shuffled along Pennsylvania Avenue in storm-trooper outfits, carrying placards inscribed AH WANTS TO SEE DEE PRESIDENT...
Making his annual appearance before the Harvard Young Republican Club--which he founded in 1947 while at the Law School--Rusher said that "the hard-core South is once again up for grabs" although Goldwater's political strength had remained "at a remarkably and encouragingly high post-Kennedy level." He apologized for discussing politics so soon after President Kennedy's assassination, but said he was merely "speaking as an observer, touching on some things we should all be thinking about...