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While Southern politicians gloated, Northern liberals were in total confusion. Oregon's Representative Edith Green, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on Education, seemed to have given up on integration. "We simply cannot afford to let our classrooms turn into battlefields," she said. "We really have to go back to quality education and put our emphasis on that." Hubert Humphrey, on the other hand, charged that the Nixon Administration had "sold out" black Americans and was in "full retreat on the civil rights front." Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, whose Senate speech denouncing "rampant racism" and "monumental hypocrisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Turn-Around on Integration | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...mythological content or for its rendering of the scene, or for what mixture of the two? Do we like it because we are able to tell our museum date some background information or because there is something ineffably beautiful about the green waves? Our familiarity with Art History or Edith Hamilton's Greck. Mythology may get in the way of our aesthetic vision...

Author: By Marcei. Proust, | Title: One Entrecote To Go, Easy On The | 3/4/1970 | See Source »

...herself, Petula Clark is an international identity crisis. In a 28-year career that began when she was nine, Pet Clark has been Britain's Shirley Temple, a French yé-yé singer and songwriter more popular at one point than Edith Piaf, and Hollywood's heiress to the fallen halo of Julie Andrews. Along the way, Petula has sold 25 million records in five languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: And the Pet Goes On | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...former number of the CRIMSON, he comes from one of the oldest racing families in America- two of the eight Triple Crown winners- and most recently represented on the turf by Damasens, Horse of the Year in 1967, property of his grandmother, Edith Baneroft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horsing Around Quiz | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

...Cannonball Adderley. Somebody else would remember a singing harmony that J. E. Mainer and his Mountaineers did years ago. Over all the years we've been playing, we've been buying thousands of records by people nobody remembers the names of. Just the music. Right up to Edith Piaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Band Talks Music | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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