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...faces an cloudy moors. Among the prints in Delacroix to Degas: Printmakers Contemporary to Daumier (a little too long and alliterative for the size of the show), the weird, excessively detailed scenes are the most fun. You keep finding an unexpected figure under a tree or a crow in the sky disguised in the dark linear pattern. These ambiguous details emerging from the shadows tantalize they eye and draw the viewer into the scene for a close look...
This urban segregation might not be as overt as the old Jim Crow system, Clark said, "but as long as the segregated education is unequal, can it make any difference what caused it? Musn't the law be that every school district in the U.S. has an obligation to end segregation--no matter what its cause...
...euphemistically called "the disturbances," 1967 turned out to be Hong Kong's best export year until then, and 1968 was even better in every respect. Last week, as it celebrated the Chinese New Year-the "Year of the Rooster"-the British crown colony had plenty to crow about. Business has never been better...
...spent most of his life trying to advance the cause of his race. Speaking at the annual corporate meeting of the N.A.A.C.P., Executive Director Roy Wilkins warned that students demanding separate, all-black departments of study on the nation's campuses are really seeking "what are, patently, Jim Crow schools." Though many black students consider Wilkins a tame, white man's Negro, his argument had a practical ring that was aimed at the moderates. Since the students are going to live in what is basically a white world, said Wilkins, "they had better learn what the white boys...
...example, a woman caught in adultery by her Indian husband had to submit to an instant nose job, performed with a skinning knife. Many of the white traders were exceptionally devoted to their Indian wives. When John ("Liver Eating") Johnson's Flathead wife, the Swan, was murdered by Crow warriors, for example, Johnson went on the warpath, killed some 300 Crows, and ate their livers in revenge...