Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Mrs. Power decided that 'local folks were getting overly fond of a 15-minute Sunday show sponsored by the American Conservative Club. Writing in the league's local bulletin, Mrs. Power declared: "The Dan Smoot TV program, literally right out of Dallas, Texas, is a skillful...
The time is the present, the scene is a small town in the deep South. The hero (Ivan Dixon) is a young Negro-too proud to truckle, too smart to fight-who is working as a section hand on the railroad and pretending he doesn't really want to...
Sir: Re the Los Angeles Music Center: it is to be devoutly hoped that (excuse me) the new auditorium seating design (pardon me, sir) with its long rows of seats unbroken by aisles (I'm sorry, may I just get by here . . . thank you) will encourage those tiresome Los...
Johnson, too, has tasted some frustration. Before the election, he phoned Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, to request a favor. "Wilbur," drawled the President, "I've just been looking through the polls here, and I've only got a few...
The Slave is essentially a kind of Greenwich Villagey talkfest. War has broken out between Negroes and whites, and with the sound of machine-gun and artillery fire in the near distance, a Negro military leader (Al Freeman Jr.) revisits his former white wife, who is now married to a...