Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assuredly find the answer . . . We do believe that all Americans, whether black or white, have a right to the full privileges of first-class citizenship. To suggest that a recognition of the rights of Negroes to the full privileges of American citizenship, and to such necessary contacts as might follow, would inevitably result in intermarriage, is to cast as serious and unjustified an aspersion upon the white race as upon the Negro race...
Splash in Mexico. A child painter who won her first prize when she was twelve, Marcia Bennett bucked parental objections ("My father thought I would wind up barefooted living with a gigolo in some basement") to follow through with an art career after studying at Columbia and Yale. Married to a Washington, D.C. businessman, Marcia fell in love with Mexico on a vacation trip, persuaded her husband to go into business there as a mining engineer. She soon managed to become a friend of such conflicting personalities as Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Siqueiros. Her splashy, arresting style is strong...
Although they were but three among seventy-five Exonians who came to Harvard in 1952, these students typified what some University administrators describe as "the Exeter syndrome." The use of such a phrase does not, however, imply that all Exeter graduates follow this pattern of agressive dissatisfaction, nor that the patern is confined exculsively to Exeter graduates...
...Star returned presently, having put on shoes and a black unbuttoned sweater over her snug dress. You'll have to pardon the way the room looks," she said, "we had a kind of brawl here last night. A party." She walked out, motioning me to follow her into a smaller room across the hall...
...future importance to the economy. More basically, the government should consider actions necessary to halt "cost-push" inflation by a re-examination of our labor and anti-trust policies, so that competition can be restored to markets in which industry-wide wage increases are granted because price increases can follow at the employers' will. The Administration must reconsider its reliance on tight money as the major tool to fight inflation or jeopardize economic growth and equitable income distribution...