Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Equal rights for civilized men," was Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes's 19th century formula for peace between black and white in Africa. It promised the black nothing immediately, but gave him a future hope. Now the South Africa where Rhodes made his fortune seeks to deny the blacks even a future claim to equality. To the north, in the lands named for Rhodes, South Africa's course is viewed with foreboding, but Rhodesia's own halfway house is an anxious place. The tendency among the frightened and the angry is to find ingenious definitions of "civilized...
...back this week on a first half year that confounded the pessimists and delighted the optimists by its healthy showing. How do businessmen feel about the six months ahead? The First National Bank of Chicago asked twelve key executives about their prospects. Consensus: 1957's second half will equal or surpass the first in almost every sector of the economy. Area witnesses...
...fine soloist in the first local performance of the revised version of Alan Hovhaness' Concerto No.2 for Violin and String Orchestra, a rather bland neo-modal work. Carl Ruggles' extremely dissonant Angels was written for either string or brass ensemble; the performance here by strings could not equal the extraordinary effect that three trumpets and five trombones can achieve. The concert ended with Daniel Pinkham '44 conducting the combined chorus and orchestra in his new Wedding Cantata. In five movements, this is a wholly ingratiating and captivating work, full of imaginative and nuanced timbres--his finest composing to date...
...modeling U.S. ready-to-wear dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none of the Poles could really believe were just for do-it-yourself fun and not state property. Their womenfolk gaped in equal unbelief at a huge display of elaborate American toys-no Communist state can afford to waste production means on such frivolity as that-and the kids themselves reveled in a forest of vending machines, happily buying Cokes, candy and gum with nickels and dimes passed out gratis by the management...
Baring-Gould described the experience: "He felt the peace of his mind was bound up with that little girl. How this had come about he could not tell. And now, his heart was full of strange cravings, his soul yearning with indescribable earnestness for one who was not his equal in station and education...