Word: fearlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brash new Los Angeles band called, with appropriate bemusement, the Bus Boys. Since the group consists of five blacks and one chicano drummer, its excursions through the realms of brotherhood come as naturally as a walk around the block, and are sometimes just as risky. KKK announces a fearless ambition guaranteed to turn both sides of the color line to a common, angry red: "I am bigger than a nigger/ Wanna be an all American man/ Wanna join the Ku Klux Klan/ Play in a rock 'n' roll band." Wielding lyrics that take wide swipes at the collective...
...biggest and brightest. Her book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman has catapulted her to talk-show and lecture-circuit fame as the reigning authority on the plight of the Black woman, particularly her relationship with the Black man. Even the Washington Post said the "fearless presentation of her analysis quite takes the breath away. It is serious, well-written, effective in its demystification, valuable as a model of hardheaded but caring analysis, principled in its criticism, important...
...spiritual leader of the more than 20 million followers of Kagyu Buddhism, one of four main orders of Tibetan Buddhism, he will offer a community blessing at the Dharmadhatu Meditation Center in Boston tomorrow, talk on "Fearless Compassion: The Activity of Enlightenment" in Memorial Hall Wednesday, and meet with King on Friday...
...lead article--no less than the third in a three-part series--concerns illegal aliens in the Southwest. Or, more accurately, it is about the "Silent Invasion--Brown Tide Threatens America." N.E. McDougald, the author, describes a series of nighttime maneuvers with the fearless men of the U.S. Border Patrol, and then offers his and others' views on the dangers unrestrained immigration presents...
...been dubbed the "Mouth of the South," "Captain Courageous" and "Terrible Ted." A 1978 biography described him as "handsome, loud, opinionated, arrogant; a self-styled Rhett Butler." Even his enemies say he is fearless. His friends call him a visionary. "Goddam," Ted Turner says, "of all the things said about me, I like that the best...