Word: jamaicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yesterday, a Mr. Adolphus Edwards, a Jamaican immigrant, was pecked to death by a large Bronze Eagle in Upper Parliament St. A U.S. State Dept. spokesman said later, "We have no comment to make as of this time...
...being murdered, as well she might, but female realism always defeats female fantasy. "Sauce was too rich at dinner" is Patsy's diagnosis. Willa is that most unlikely of women-one who is frightened of men. She almost gets over this block after a weekend with a jaded Jamaican named Auro, who has "the palest Negro skin" she has ever seen. When she arrives back home after dark, the poor dopey male, Tom, is waiting at the gate to punish his faithless Patsy. "He rose as she went through the gate and acted so deftly that the scream...
...British have always been stuffy about race, but the stuffiness has grown with the influx in recent years of some 625,000 immigrants. Whether a man is a blue-black African, a coffee-colored Jamaican, an Aryan Pakistani or even a Cypriot of Greek descent, he is considered "colored" in Britain - and almost invariably discriminated against. Two years ago Parliament passed a halfhearted race-relations act forbidding discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transport, but the law is so impossible to enforce that no one has yet been convicted of breaking it. Moreover, it makes no attempt...
...Despite his popularity, the artist quit New York City in 1883 for a wave-washed promontory in Maine called Prouts Neck. There the lifelong bachelor worked in a cliffside clapboard studio. Despite his old saltitude, he ordered his natty wardrobe from Brooks Brothers and purchased $40 worth of fine Jamaican rum a month from Boston's fancy S. S. Pierce for his hourly tots. He maintained, despite his absence, membership in the rarefied Century Club. Preserved in the sea air, Homer died at 74 in 1910, irritated on his deathbed that he did not live longer than his father...
During his stay, Selassie met with the ailing Bustamante, who is almost blind from cataracts, received an LL.D. degree from Kingston's University of the West Indies and visited Montego Bay. In an address to the Jamaican Parliament in Gordon House, he vaguely held out the hint of aid. "We must expand material and other cooperation," he said. "We must remember that many states today representing major parts of the world were once weak, but through a process of assimilation and combination have become strong...