Word: interring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What particularly distresses about the sorry spectacle is that it is so singularly inappropriate a tribute to the memory of DuBois. He, above all, placed considerable emphasis on interracial cooperation. On more than one occasion he discerned "the beginning of wisdom in inter-racial contact", and sought-ever so indefatigably-to encompass "broader cooperation with the white rulers of the world," offering a chance for peaceful development of black peoples, and an avoidance of catastrophic race war. If only the whites, "the deaf and dumb masters of the world," could recognize that such cooperation with blacks on the bases...
...extra-ordinarily well-acted by Doug (Peter) McGrath and Paul (Joey) Bradley, carefully photographed and edited-technically proficient. But its director displays an extremely limited intelligence, an interest in people on the most superficial level. He tries to consider their emotional make-up divorced from their serious social inter-actions, and ends up with roadhouse cliche...
SLUGGISH, vacillating and quarrelsome throughout its two years of life, the 91st Congress could not even muster the means to die gracefully. It did not so much expire as commit suicide, victim of its ineffectual procedures, disagreement over priorities and inter-chamber acrimonies...
...Federal Reserve Board would "provide fully for the increasing monetary needs of an expanding economy." The following week. Burns, in a typically Delphic passage in a speech, left policywatchers guessing as to whether any such deal had been struck. Most common guess: no. Besides, Burns is only primus inter pares on the Reserve's twelve-man Open Market Committee, which regulates the money flow. A number of anti-inflation hawks on the committee, notably the New York Federal Reserve's Alfred Hayes, recently voted against faster expansion...
...which to retain some hope of obtaining a (dare I say it?) liberal education which evades the iron claws of pain and pleasure reaching out from the board rooms of the earth to ensure an orderly transition from thinking human beings to well-disciplined, highly specialized technologists. "Cut this inter-disciplinary crap, Winkhorst, specialist discipline is the only discipline . . . Cook 'em all down to decorticated canine preparation...