Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Filene and his two companions were arrested after they had sat in for six hours at the G. V. Wattendorf Real Estate Co. in Dorchester. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which sponsored the sit-in and simultaneous picketing outside the Wattendorf offices, charges that the company discriminates on the basis of race...
According to Filene, CORE testers found evidence of discrimination on two occasions. Last Tuesday, Wattendorf agents allegedly showed a white woman several apartments after telling a Negro none were available. On Friday, Filene said, Wattendorf sales manager John Coleman agreed to show an apartment to the Negro, Mrs. Alma Williams, and then showed her one in a vandalized building in a Negro section...
...incredibly difficult task. Though the Viet Cong are losing more men (currently about 500 a week) all the time, there are more to be killed; officials in Saigon now estimate that hard-core Communist strength has gone up from 23,000 to 31,000 over the past few months. But government strikes are at least more and more frequent. In the first week of September, 55 separate offensive ground actions of battalion strength or larger were under way, close to an alltime record. Conversely, Red attacks also increased from 300 to 400 in the same period. As this week...
...living religion. In his recent films (The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light), God is present again and again but always in dreadful or ambiguous wise: as a spring of water, as a giant spider, as a silence. Never as love, never in the heart's core...
...Hours with Thelonious Monk (Riverside) is time exceptionally well spent with the ranking genius of jazz. On recordings made during his 1961 European tour, Monk runs through the core of his repertory (18 tracks on two LPs), but his message eludes his three breathless sidemen...