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...there was the inevitable round of tasteless gossip and sick jokes. "Do you know what Smith said to Rusk at the altar?" runs one gibe. " 'Awright, now stand down, honkey!'" In New York, Black Power Agitator Lincoln Lynch denounced Rusk as a "subconscious racist" and added, only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: A Marriage of Enlightenment | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...Cincinnati's tremors subsided toward an uneasy peace-but not before the riot mood had spread to Dayton, 50 miles to the north. There S.N.C.C. Chairman H. Rap Brown, fresh from the Prattville mob scene, urged Negroes to "take the pressure off Cincinnati," and advised them that "the honkey (white man) is your enemy. How can you be nonviolent in America, the most violent country in the world? You better shoot that man to death." As the pattern of burning and looting emerged in Dayton for the second time in a year, police lifted a page from Tampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Mind Over Mayhem | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...rehearsal: there was enough random foot-wriggling and arm-moving to be bothersome. The three piece orchestra (two pianos and a drum--kazoo and whistle from time to time) was by itself smoothly professional. It's worth going to hear them if only to convince yourself that honkey-tonk and marches are closer art froms than you realized...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Oh What A Lovely War | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...first time to the voice of Broadway talking in its sleep; they were listening to the hot-lipped, two-timing, razz-m'tazzle moan of the saxophones that chuckle and the whistles that whine in the cabarets of Charleston, Memphis, Chicago, in San Francisco roof-gardens and the honkey-tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried to crown with bayleaf the youthful brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gershwin | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." Therefore, we shall not attempt to prove to you that gamblers, saloonkeepers, dance hall girls and honkey-tonks do not exist in Douglas or in Agua Prieta, the Mexican city immediately across the Border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1925 | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

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