Word: fact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days with Raquel and her husband and friends. "I was impressed by her brightness," says Goodman. "She is terribly concerned with her image-with the idea that she is only a screen personality and is not a bona fide person in people's minds." As a matter of fact, notes Goodman, it was curious to see that Raquel, for all her visibility, goes almost unrecognized by passers-by on the street...
...helpers have been promoted to journeymen painters, despite the fact that some have had as much as ten years' experience. No training has been given any of the helpers, including the one or two whites with no previous experience. They were not sent to union night school as the union proposed, nor were crew chiefs or journeymen painters told anything about training them. When a crew chief asked the paint-shop foreman. "What's a helper supposed to do?" the foreman replied. "Are you kidding? The same thing as any other painter!" It is not the union or the white...
...thinking black people are inferior or disliking them because of their skin color. It is a matter of the ways in which black people are paid less and forced to live in poor housing. The reason that Harvard can get experienced black painters at a lower wage (besides the fact that helpers are lied to about promotions) is that these men can't find jobs elsewhere because of discrimination. To justify profiting from skilled black painters hired for the low helpers' wage. Harvard claims that it can't find "qualified" black workers. This is false. It builds the idea...
Nancy-Beth Gordon 71, who was selected by the Radcliffe Judicial Board, will participate in discussions both when the three-man hearing panels make their "findings of fact" and when the full committee decides on the punishment of Cliffies. However, she will not vote on punishments...
...think that Richard Brautigan is crazy. Granted, he was the focus of a crazy Saturday night, but that doesn't make him crazy. In fact, he's the most lucid person I've heard in quite a while. It was the context of the reading (created largely by my own expectations), not Brautigan's poetry, that accounted for the craziness...