Word: heartful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short-Lived Peace. Cairo's latest troubles began earlier this year when the Rev. Gerald Montroy, a white Catholic priest, arrived in town from East St. Louis and took up his duties in the heart of a black neighborhood. He drew together the local N.A.A.C.P., a cooperative association and a couple of street gangs, and with the Rev. Charles Koen, a local black minister, formed the United Front...
...seemed in good spirits. "It's a pleasant job." he said. "Harvard treats me good. I've been working here 24 years. I had two heart attacks twelve years ago and they gave me an easy job. Before that I was a plasterer. Then I was a janitor in the North Yard. Threc-and-ahalf years ago I came here to this House. They give us free medical care up at Holyoke Center and I get along good with the boys...
...unforgettable, in fact, that Graham organized two more benefits like it. He chose an old auditorium in the heart of San Francisco's black ghetto. It was called the Fillmore. Then he switched to another site, the present Fillmore West, set up the Fillmore East as the second axis of the rock world, and proved that rock was a business worth administering well...
...culture transplant poses the same difficulty as a heart transplant. It is socially as well as biologically instinctive to reject what is alien. One slightly condescending form of acceptance is to treat what is foreign as exotic. Culturally speaking, this makes one man's meat another man's persimmon. In many ways, the Grand Kabuki is a Japanese persimmon on a U.S. theatergoer's palate. It is a sweet, sumptuous and strange new taste sensation with which to start the Broadway season...
Died. Alexander Holtzoff, 82, oldest member of the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Brilliant and fiercely independent, Holtzoff waged a running battle with higher courts during most of his 24 years on the bench. In 1952, he refused to nullify President Truman's seizure of the steel industry, only to be reversed by the Supreme Court; ten years later, he fined the U.S. Communist Party $120,000 for failing to register as an agent of the Soviet Union, and was reversed again. As a colleague put it: "Most of us take...