Word: demeaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent cover story on an excellent actress-Sandy Dennis [Sept. 1]. Aside from her abundant talent, it is reassuring to know that there are those in an often maligned profession who refuse to demean either themselves or their vocations by using popular opinion as a constant beacon. Mrs. Mulligan serves as a rare illustration of the fact that those with sufficient will, intelligence, sensitivity and courage have little need to compromise themselves to succeed...
...effort by the people of Watts to keep their own community peaceful, a self-help project that even the nationalists could not demean, although it came from a coalition group. Lou Gothard, an active member of TALO, thinks this kind of unity is a necessity for community action. Although he has nationalist sympathies, he feels that nationalist have often hampered effective action by taking a hard, doctrinaire line that prevents coalition. "The function of nationalism is to point out the fallacies of the civil rights movement," Gothard said, implying that before equality can be achieved, Negroes must be able...
...attracted little public attention until newsmen asked Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen what he thought about it. Dirksen, who had been en route to Mexico City with the President when Ford made his charges, made no attempt to hide his Olympian disapproval. "You don't," he said acerbically, "demean the Chief Magistrate of your country at a time like this when the war is on. You stand up to be counted." Dirksen subsequently tried to minimize his differences with Ford...
...Harvard Summer News of the most recent "teach-in." I wish to commend its sponsors. Truly profound thought was required to select mediocre burlesque comic Norman Mailer as a participant. Probably no other speaker could better garbage mouth the president of the United States, and in so doing, totally demean the stature of a Harvard forum. Was Mr. Mailer's diatribe necessary to insure "full academic freedom," "scholarly inquiry," or "full discussion of the issues...
...Russell and Dick Gregory, he is in all respects a headliner, working the best places, such as San Francisco's hungry i and Hollywood's Crescendo. Cosby, a tall and soft-spoken former Temple University halfback, refuses to make racial jokes, on the moot ground that they demean the race. He talks about kindergarten and old radio shows instead, and sets up an imaginary football game between college boys and mature gorillas. Nipsey Russell claims that he similarly tries to avoid racial humor, but his act often makes use of it nonetheless...