Word: dig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Polemical Dig. Smith read a message from President Nixon expressing his hope "for an early, equitable, verifiable agreement" on the future deployment of each superpower's strategic weapons. Semyonov declared that Russia would "welcome a reasonable accommodation," but added that the intensification of the arms race "serves the interests of aggressive imperialist circles." It was a polemical dig of the sort that the Russians had carefully avoided during the five-week preliminary SALT discussions in Helsinki...
...does fame, fortune, and a Hollywood career grab you ? Cold you dig a leading role in 3 Lives For Mississippi -a film about the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers-which is soon to be cast in the Quincy House guest suite by Downhill Racer maker Michael Ritchie? Or perhaps you just enjoy guerrilla theatre, mind-expansion through participation art, poetry reading, films, tales of liberation, dram symposiums, cowardly lions, music, or sports...
...museum in the inner city." His scorn for the white art world is complete. "Frank Stella? So much crap! It's decorative and costs lots of money and doesn't say anything. Earthworks? What the hell does it mean to black people if you get bulldozers and dig holes in the ground? All this stuff whites are buying tells the black man a lot about where the white community is at, namely, nowhere." His easel works are as bold and simple as his walls. In The Golden Prison, he shows a black man behind bars beneath a flag...
...last summer in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Seattle showed what happens when they collide. In Pittsburgh, 40 people were injured in clashes between police and black and white demonstrators. At one site Nate Smith, a former professional boxer and at that time head of a self-help organization called Operation Dig, dragged a superintendent to the edge of a fifth-floor framework and told him, as Ebony magazine reported, "Look, m.f., if you don't hire my men, I'm gonna drop you." The superintendent hired eleven...
Funky, jive, dawn, high, the Man, hawk, cool, hot, copped-out, cats, caps, kicked, reefer, Johns, juke, ofay, goofed, wing, hip, dig, soul, honkies, splib (spook as in Negro), grass and skag are just a few of the words appearing in black poetry that often have multiple meanings elusive to the white reader. For example, in Etheridge Knight's Poems from Prison, he says...