Word: darker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frail-looking Negro in the embroidered pillbox to 5,500 Negroes packed into Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena one hot afternoon last week. "I am here to teach you how to be free. Yes, free from the white man's yoke. We want unity of all darker peoples on the earth. Then we will be masters of the United States, and we are going to treat the white man the way he should be treated." Roared the crowd: "That's right! More! More!" For more than two hours, as shouts and applause rose in regular cadences...
...newspaper (delivered to more than 100.-ooo alumni) proudly reports all marriages that can be traced back to a romance at the G. At the Concord, just inside the mammoth dining room, a wooden pegboard records who is sitting where-pink pegs for women, blue for men. Lighter and darker shades indicate relative ages. Thus the maitre d'hotel is also able to serve as an efficient matchmaker...
Speaking at all-white Florida State University, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, 57, typically detoured from his academic chore (presenting two Wylie awards to future librarians), wished for a darker Dixie-to-come: "I hope that in a third of a century not only will we be integrated and almost all racism will be a historic fact we read about in old books, but I hope we'll be a lot further along toward all becoming tea-colored...
...state of "finitude." He does not know what he is or where he is going. He feels estranged from some great, unknown thing that is demanded of him. He is filled with wonder at the phenomenon of "being," simple astonishment that things are. This wonder presupposes a darker knowledge that they might not be; being is threatened, always and everywhere, by nonbeing...
...comment on this year's varsity would be complete without dwelling for a sentimental while on George Harrington, the petit 5 ft., 7 in. guard whose scoring, playmaking, and seemingly charismatic presence carried the Crimson through the season's darker moments...