Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modifying the proposals of James Baldwin and other Negro leaders for a general boycott of Christmas, the national director of CORE said that such a boycott would put stores with discriminatory employment practices at no real disadvantage, "A boycott does not work unless it is specific, unless it pinches some where," he said...
...crop-rich acres as endowment. Though yet to feel the cling of ivy, Raymond has everything else: tutorials for its 124 students, a scholarly faculty of 17, comprehensive exams, and a bold taste for guest speakers from Birchers to Zennists to Martin Luther King. It is generalist to the core. "Students who want vocational training should go elsewhere," says Burns...
...march Aug. 8. Four of them--Perdew, Ralph Allen, Don Harris and Zev Aelony--have been charged with incitement to insurrection, a capital offense in Georgia. The other two, Thomas McDaniel and Sallie Mae Durham, are being held on lesser charges. All the students except Aelony, a member of CORE, are workers for the Student Non-Violent coordinating Committee...
...against avant-garde design in itself. Rather, I object to architecture that tries to cloak its sleaziness under something called "functional honesty." Architectural critics will tell me that Holyoke Center has nothing artificial about it, that it does not try to hide its functional aspects (like the unsightly utility core, which, God knows, ought to be hidden). "Functional honesty" seems to me a marvelously clever way of passing off cheapness and embarrassing people into acceptance of unfinished concrete exteriors. Hans Christian Andersen's emperor, after all, was dressed in a most functionally honest...
...suggestion was to train a core of speakers to go out and address groups of all kinds: ladies clubs, church groups, schools, colleges, and labor unions. Ideally, the plan would have been fine training for the students who participated; and it might well have made a slight impact on the community. But the program was organized late in the year and it proved difficult to set up appointments. On balance, it was something of a failure...