Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From there we go on to all the traditional song-styles of the amateur review -- the sinister tango, the unintelligible patter song, the rock'n'roll parody. The melodies were just not striking enough to break out from their cliches and be heard. Tight, overly simple little tunes, accompanied by only a piano, drums, and a brief, aborted oboe (last year's show had the advantage of a charming flute and steady bass behind the songs), they were too thin to matter much. One song, "What Sort of Man," written by Sharon Stokes, started to move towards a little more...
Brooke singled out welfare as one area where the civil rights movement might become more active. "In moving around the country, I've heard that people have been finding it more profitable not to work than to work," he said. "You can't get people to work for $125 a week because they're getting $87 in relief and, after taxes, they'd do better staying there. There ought to be programs which would give them an incentive to work...
...Sarnoff's memo had been pigeonholed. Now he dug it out, showed it to Owen Young. Sarnoff's boss was enthusiastic, but the RCA board would agree to put up only $2,000-which Sarnoff spent to transmit a broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight championship fight.- Heard by 200,000 wireless enthusiasts, the broadcast caused a sensation, and RCA began developing sets immediately. By 1926, sales had passed $83 million, and Sarnoff was a vice president in charge of its newest venture: the NBC radio network...
This is why integration is a word rarely heard among the younger leaders--they are tired of hearing that they must improve themselves so they can "step up" into the white society. This is why the poverty program, aimed at the "culturally deprived," is regarded by the nationalists as just another tool of the white man. In a conversation over why I, the White Student Liberal, was tutoring in Watts, a nationalist said, "Your job is not to tell those kids that they're as good as you are, but to prove that you're as good as they...
...white staff worker at the American Friends Service Committee, said that she was often able to work better with the "White System" than Negroes. "When you're dealing with a white landlord, he's more apt to give you a sympathetic hearing if you're white. I never heard or had it intimated to me that because I am white my work is neither wanted nor appreciated here...