Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busy' are grammatically wrong," says Taylor. He relishes the effect when he tells students that such speech forms come directly from the language of their West African forefathers and are not a corruption of European usage: "Suddenly this causes the black students to feel that their language isn't so inferior after all. This is psychologically important -the black doesn't have to feel he is stupid...
...coupons, all to no avail. Grant what concession you will, unless you turn American society upside-down and free the consciousness from the tyranny of the corporate state--and maybe even after all that--there is no answer to a man who enjoys his act of rebellion, who says isn't-it-wonderful-look-at-the-art-and-music-it's-inspiring-o-hear-people-communicate-o-dammit-I-feel-free. What do you concede to a man who has no demands...
Maybe there isn't much on paper besides ideas, but in ideas, ultimately, lies the power of any presidency. And therein is the promise. He wants to try to manage the changes in this country, rather than react to them, and so he would like to spend more time and money on those underprivileged children in their first five years, to funnel some of the federal tax funds back to the statehouses and the city halls. Yet large questions remain. Can Nixon move vigorously from the planning and organization phase to action? Has he been too slow in addressing...
...Southwest). "Ethel's the kind," says one associate, "who wouldn't shrink from getting involved with such groups as the Black Panther organization in Chicago." Ethel agrees: "You could always play it safe; take on projects that couldn't fail and no one could criticize. But that isn't the way Bobby lived...
...listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady . . . Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddamn secret yet? And don't you know--listen to me now--don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself Buddy...