Word: damns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigate," cried Molly Piontkowski, a diminutive Polish woman, one of 13 angry witnesses who appeared before the committee. "You don't do a damn thing." Asked by Javits if she knew of "people actually suffering from hunger," she replied: "Are you kiddin'? Are you kiddin'? You can walk down the street in east Los Angeles and seven families out of ten on a block are barely existing." Said Catherine Jermany, a huge black woman who heads an organization known as the Los Angeles County Welfare Rights Organization: "I'm tired of this jive! This whole welfare...
...good to see the recent return to normalcy. Damn good. Things were all messed up, and there seemed to be no direction to what was happening. But then Elvis returned to the charts. After that, the Sox and Senators started winning. And now, after unheard of success by Penn teams in competition with Harvard, coach Harry Parker sent his heavyweight crew out to right matters. Equality can be a good thing, but when Harvard starts losing to the Quakers in all manner of sports, I think things have gone...
...past, their, their teams were losing ones, at least when Harvard was the opponent. Only in basketball did the Quakers hold an edge, and they had never beaten a Harvard squad in squash, cross country, or hockey. It was tradition to lose to the Crimson, and a damn good one at that...
...shock of integration and are looking for an easy way out of their problems. The easy way out is to let them have black courses and their own dormitories and give them degrees. But what in hell are soul courses worth in the real world? No one gives a damn if you've taken soul courses. They want to know if you can do mathematics and write a correct sentence." Rustin's statement was heavy with logic-for older, middle-class Americans. The trouble was that the radical young reject this kind of argument as bourgeois and Uncle...
...girl who plays her is not. And until you understand how really far the experience-philosophies of joy, body, and emotion have penetrated through the new middle class of Americans, Connie Kreski is damn hard to figure out. A nice Catholic girl from Michigan and a registered nurse too, but Miss January of 1968 (a couple of years ago, even on the coasts, you wouldn't have been able to make the fit). Her discoveries (there were two), occurred in ways that are about as close to the Legend of Lana Turner as you can get. First, on the side...