Word: grave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot justify Powell's personal conduct, but I see our bigoted treatment of him, the symbol of black power, as a grave moral sickness...
...fear of reprisals and epithets and have thereby given the impression of solid Negro support for Powell and his antics. The fact is that many responsible Negroes do not wish preferential treatment for Negro violators of the law. No thinking Negro can deny that Powell is guilty of grave violations of the law, and has flagrantly abrogated his right to sit in Congress. For too long, many American whites, out of a feeling of guilt for the sins of their fathers or out of indifference to the Negro as a meaningful member of society, have looked the other way when...
Nearly 40 months after the assassination, the body of John F. Kennedy last week was moved to its final resting place-a gentle hillside in Arlington National Cemetery about 20 feet from his original grave. Alongside him lay two of his children, Patrick Bouvier, who lived for only two days after his birth in 1963, and a little girl who was stillborn in 1956 and whose grave was marked simply DAUGHTER...
...Cape Cod summer home more than 150 years ago and recently collected from farmyard walls and abandoned foundations in that area, pave the site. On a low semicircular wall are inscribed seven quotations, all from the inaugural address. The black marble slab marking the President's grave bears only a simple inscription...
...born Dumitru Radu Popescu relived a teenager's view of the smooth transition from fascism to Communism in his haunting short story, The Blue Lion. To escape the heavy hand of the censor, Polish writers such as Zbigniew Zaluski have resorted to 19th century allegories that discuss in grave detail the positive qualities of Polish uprisings against the Russians 100 years ago-a theme with sledgehammer relevance in Poland today. The Eastern Europeans are also encouraged by the occasional sounds of independence they hear from Moscow, where Aleksandr Tvardovsky, the editor of the literary weekly Novy Mir, last week...