Word: harriet
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...United States works. The continued separation, the way white Americans have always thought, will come at a price--continued bitterness, continued hatred, an unhealing, festering, open wound. But it's a price white America has paid since its birth, and one it will likely continue to pay. Gwaltney quotes Harriet Jones, a 10-year-old: "I think white people would wreck everything if they thought the only way they could save the country was to be as nice to us as we have been to them." She's probably right...
...agreement struck by Robert Walsh, student council president, and Harriet Sheridan dean of the college, the university will institute a new calendar in accordance with a recent student calender reform poil, and will raise its credit requirement...
...talking about life and death." So said Carl Anderson, legislative aide to Republican Senator Jesse Helms, at a Conservative Political Action Conference a week ago in Washington, D.C. The words were no less harsh at a seminar of 80 women held in a Manhattan town house. Said Harriet Pilpel, general counsel for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a privately funded family-planning service: "If the bills pending before Congress pass and are not held to be unconstitutional, there will be very little privacy left at all for any fertile woman...
...offensive shows have a potential for being cleaned up," says Cal Thomas, a Moral Majority vice president. "We are not suggesting a return to the days of Ozzie and Harriet. Sex and interpersonal relationships are a legitimate subject for artistic portrayal...
Chalk up another true-to-life role for Actress Cicely Tyson. She has already starred in television biographies of Abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. This time Tyson plays a Chicago superteacher, Marva Collins, in a TV movie to be aired next fall. Collins has coaxed children of Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area from near illiteracy to discussions of Roman history and Michelangelo. She also coached Tyson in classroom technique, and gives the actress high marks as a student. Says Collins: "Cicely takes her acting as seriously as I take my teaching...