Word: daleyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calling Daley's description of Jesse Owen's appearance in the 1938 Olympics as "indeed moving," the letter states that Owen's "inspirational performance has done little to correct the suffering and humiliation that still characterize the situation of black people in America...
...letter, written by Thomas S. Williamson Jr. '68, John D. Tyson '69, and Stanley E. Greenidge '68, criticizes a column on the boycott by Times sports-writer Arthur Daley as insensitive "to the morale stamina of black athletes in this country." The letter appeared yesterday...
...Daley's column, according to the letter, "glosses over the moral implications of individual protest and opens the way for a romantic portrait of the Olympics as a shrine to brotherly competition and good sportsmanship...
...income white voters by showing that racist appeals are used by reactionaries as a cover-up for anti-labor conservative social and economics policies. I also added that a supplementary effort would be made with "religious groups and community political organizations," not "political clubs" like Tammany Hall or the Daley machine. Steven Kelman...
Foil & Contrast. For the dedication, Chicago put on its festive best. The Chicago Symphony played Beethoven and Bernstein. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks read a poem to the effect, "Art hurts." In ringing tones, Mayor Richard Daley called the statue a "free expression" of the "vitality of the city." When at last the great blue veiling fell away (see opposite page), the crowd, estimated at upwards of 25,000, greeted it with an awed and respectful hush. Against the stark Miesian geometry of the Civic Center stood a majestic monument, its massive metal features-relieved by lacy rods-matching the building...