Word: hung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parchman has no record of when or how the practice started. But it was in existence as long ago as 1918, when Negro inmates (now 65% of the segregated prison population) were allowed to take wives or girl friends to their sleeping quarters. For privacy, they hung blankets around the beds. Later, the staff allowed prisoners to build separate units, and eventually girl friends were barred. The system was kept quiet for years, but now it is openly acknowledged, and no one in Mississippi seems greatly exercised about...
...arty set or with the heads or among the wonks or jocks. You can't stand naked before anyone but your roommates and your girlfriend. You are given an identity which you begin to believe in yourself, and once you're in that bag you're hung up for life...
...fascinations of the exhibit is the juxtaposition of paintings that gallerygoers would normally have to travel miles to compare. An outstanding example is two wood panels illustrating the birth of the Virgin and her presentation in the temple, which until the 1930s hung in the Barberini Palace in Rome. Then one was acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan, the other by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Now they are back together again, offering a double portion of the pale palette, polished perspective and high-waisted principessas painted by the anonymous 15th century artist known only as "the Master...
...long hours last week, Detroit's police hung back from the Twelfth Street riot area. Apparently, one resident quipped, they were hoping that "if they left, the crowd would leave too." But if there is one point that has been proved repeatedly over four summers of ghetto riots, it is that when the police abandon the street, the crowd takes it over, and the crowd can swiftly become a mob. It happened in Watts, in Boston's Roxbury district, in Newark and in blood and fire in Detroit...
...colleges had resumed classes on even a token level, and the percentage of secondary schools open was just as low. In most cases the schoolrooms to which the students returned bore little resemblance to those they had left. Teaching equipment has been carried off or damaged, walls are hung with soggy, frayed posters and slogans, windows are broken, toilets fouled, and walls are blackened by the winter fires of the Red Guards...