Word: glamorizers
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Bedford-Stuyvesant New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant is in many way worse off than Harlem. Although it is bigger it has received far less attention than the "glamor ghetto" to the north. But it has a friend in Bobby Kennedy. Some think this means Befford-Stuyvesant has a future...
...Africans are often 'used' here; they tend to become status symbols. Cliffies especially treat them as symbols of their own worldliness and liberalism. Some feel that to be seen walking or dating one impresses the local community, and the fact that he is an African may just add more glamor to it. Free speech, free this, free that, is expected here, but it can throw curve balls...
...Glamor & Clamor. Meanwhile, Vanessa went into the theater and had her self a thundering great success. First year out of school she was in two West End plays; by 1959 she was signed on at the Stratford Old Vic; and in a 1961 production of As You Like It, she played a Rosalind of such fire and grace that most theater people were agreed: for the next 25 years any actress who values her reputation will think twice before playing Rosalind in England...
...glamor and the clamor of it all got to Lynn, and one day she decided that horses really were not the answer. When Vanessa turned down a minor part in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lynn jumped at the chance to play it. In 1963, Olivier took her on at the National Theater, and she found that she could play for pathos (Brecht's Mother Courage) as well as waddle through twaddle (Coward's Hay Fever). Big things were expected of her?but not quite the sort of big things that actually happened...
...consecutive sessions, gains by individual stocks outnumbered the declines, and many a stock in the course of the week hit a new high, not merely for 1967 but for 1966 as well. Blue chips Du Pont, Bethlehem Steel, Procter & Gamble and even beleaguered A.T. & T. went up; so did glamor stocks Itek, Scientific Data and Ampex. Where there were big drops, there was an obvious reason. American Broadcasting Co. fell 141 points following an announcement in Washington by the Justice Department that it would oppose the merger of ABC and International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT, on the other hand, finished...