Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night attack has started, and I am with a fire brigade in a sandbag crow's nest on top of a tall building near the Thames." So somberly, portentously, Edward R. Murrow began an evening broadcast of the London blitz in the early days of World War II. To listeners in the U.S., his resonant, sepulchral voice came to convey the grim reality of war. Murrow followed Londoners on their way to air-raid shelters and caught their measured footsteps on his mike; he joined R.A.F. bomber pilots on their raids over Germany and described the nightmarish rainbow...
...something over a year ago when I first heard The Voice. I went down to Greenwich Village to hear Langston Hughes' musical panorama Jerico-Jim Crow, performed in a building that does double duty as a church and a synagogue...
There in the shadow of the ag and the columns by which Davis was sworn in an first president the Confederacy, the crowd heard almost the whole roster of civil rights describe the plight of the Negro and demand the demise of Jim Crow...
...Successor. During a concert in Birmingham in 1956, five white men leaped onto the stage and knocked him down. Cole was unhurt. That is, until later, when the Negro press scalded him "for kneeling before the throne of Jim Crow" by playing before a segregated audience. In Harlem, some juke joints ceremoniously smashed his records. "I'm an entertainer," he answered, "not a politician. I'm crusading in my own way. I feel I can help ease the tension by gaining the respect of both races all over the country...
...great outdoors now celebrated almost entirely in never-ever television westerns. In a curious miracle of abandonment, Americans have become strangers in a landscape that they believe has built their national character. But not all. North of Alamogordo and east of Tularosa, south of Hondo and only six miles crow flight from an Apache reservation-in the dusty desolation of New Mexico-Artist Peter Kurd works in a perpetual state of wonderment...