Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years the military rested comfortably on its largely unfounded reputation as a fastness of racial fair play and equality. Because it beat chopping cotton or pushing brooms, blacks viewed the armed forces as an escape from a hostile world. That, it turns out, was a mistake. Even as civilian society makes slow, painful progress in civil rights, and black radicalism heightens blacks' sense of injustice, it has become increasingly clear that the military too has its full share of racism...
...Nittany Lions, bound for the Cotton Bowl to face either Texas or Arkansas, were a unanimous choice for the award, collecting 80 points in the final voting to 69 for Dartmouth, last year's winner...
...more than his style, it is Shahn's choice of subject and statement that cut the same in both painting and photo; a social realist, influenced by the Cubists, he captures different planar levels in "Roadside Inns," "Destitute Ozark Residents," and "Cotton Pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas." The young girls picking cotton carry their long white bags like wedding trains falling in curves down the foreground of the photo. These cotton workers are as much tied to their jobs as the black woman in "Relief Check, Scotts Run, West Virginia" is tied to a life on welfare. Leaning out the window...
...soul so dead that he did not once thrill to the gut-wrenching twists and turns of the Caterpillar and the Black Widow? Or pit his adolescent's rolled-steel stomach against the depredations of Corny Dogs and Bar-B-Q mystery meat burgers and loomfuls of pink cotton candy? Even those barbaric relics of carnival days, the sideshow freaks, are still present. Hear the saw-throated barker cry of the Headless Body Beautiful: "Yessir, folks, step right up and see Lola, the living, decapitated victim of a hideous automobile accident!" There is the Frog Boy, and Giant Hong...
...Commoner sees it, the deterioration of the environment is caused largely by the kinds of goods now being produced. Since 1946, synthetic fibers have displaced cotton and wool; aluminum, plastic and concrete have captured markets once held by lumber and steel; nitrogen fertilizers have replaced natural manure...