Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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6. The Pretenders, Davis
Benny's Tavern. Eventually the animosity of President Andrew Jackson toward the school and what he considered its pampered and aristocratic students (despite the fact that these students were forced to sleep on the floor) caused Thayer's resignation. But by that time, the school was well established...
Jeff Davis quickly became a leader of his class but also showed certain rebellious qualities befitting a future President of the Confederacy. Davis was one of the first cadets to be court-martialed for frequenting Benny Havens' off-limits tavern at nearby Buttermilk Falls. There were other charges, including...
"I am demanding a divorce between the black cultural movement and black political militancy," Charles T. Davis, professor of American Literature at Penn State, said Tuesday night in a lecture in Emerson Hall.
Davis called the union of the black arts and black power an "unholy alliance" and said that the black writers' emphasis on black power was undermining their ability as artists.