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Word: festal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support the festivities in honor of America's oldest city. One effect of the widely publicized demonstrations may be opposition to the appropriation, an economic retaliation this time inflicted on the whites. In jail, a group of demonstrators devised a coloring book to be distributed as part of the festal campaign, call Profiles in Color. Under illustrations of various phases of St Augustine history, captions might read: "See the demonstration leaders, color them pink; see the northern students, color them green; see the sheriff, color his neck red; see the judge, color him shady...

Author: By Kim W. Atkinson, | Title: St. Augustine Demonstrator Finds Northern Students Participation Valuable Only If It Develops Commitment | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...satisfying; she seemed more at case, more smiling, more dignified, as she began to explain African dancing. Perhaps an audience of dancers is inherently more open to inspiration; and, of course, it is more thrilling to see a class of perhaps 75 dancers attempt a warrior-dance or a festal dance than to see one woman perform "fragments" of tribal dances, fragments unnecessarily brief...

Author: By Peggy VON Szeliski, | Title: Pearl Primus | 11/14/1963 | See Source »

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