Word: grier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part, the Army contends that Specialist Smith has only been following in the footsteps of other professional athletes-Joe Louis, Joe Di-Maggio, Sandy Koufax and Roosevelt Grier, for example-who continued to concentrate on their specialty while in uniform. Anyway, says Major Willis Johnson, chief of the Army's sports office, "Stan Smith is unique. He isn't a soldier in the original concept of soldiering. Smith is a national asset...
...race. After a series of private meetings with potential backers in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, Muskie came away with pledges that would put him over his goal for the trip: $150,000. One night, 250 guests-including such luminaries as Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster and Roosevelt Grier-paid $250 each to dine at the Beverly Hills Hotel with Ed and his wife Jane...
...GRIER JONES, 25, is considered by some veterans one of the most impressive young pros to join the tour in years. A star high school fullback in Wichita, Kans., he was wooed by football scouts from several colleges. Instead he chose to go to Oklahoma State on a golf scholarship, where he won the 1968 N.C.A.A. championship. Relying on a rhythmically compact swing, he won $37,193 in his first full season on the tour, and was named the 1969 Rookie of the Year. Off to a so-so start after winning $55,913 last season, Jones echoes the sentiments...
...Grier and Cobbs carry the argument to extremes when they contend that the "self-concept of slaveholder is central to the American national character and is in fact the national sickness of white racism." It has been structured into demeaning laws and customs designed to keep maximum distance between black and white. Poussaint argues that what is needed is a massive program of "deconditioning" Americans from their white-superior, black-inferior models of thought and relationships. The burden in achieving this, he suggests, would fall mainly on the educational system and the mass media...
Stubbornness. Say Grier and Cobbs: "If the white man recognizes individuality and humanity in a black, he must then feel love and set himself against the oppressor of his beloved brother." While this counsel of perfection may be hard to fulfill, they offer an interesting classification of whites rated according to the stubbornness of their prejudice. They see little hope for a near-future change in attitudes by most blue-collar workers, some "men of influence," or white (meaning rightist) radicals. For the rest...