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...finally saw the film of the match and watched him present her with those roses and Margaret curtsy, I yelled 'Margaret, you idiot, you played right into his hands!' If that was me, I would have grabbed him and kissed him. He's not going to jive me. If he gets too dirty, I can get tough...
...child: "You see, I was left out in the breeze, born in Brooklyn amongst the garbage cans and roaches and poor Italians and poor blacks. We all emulated the black culture. There wasn't any other." He became a radio freak hooked on black deejays like Dr. Jive, and dropped out of high school...
While he was in the Windy City Dixon had several groups of his own, including the Big Three Trio and the Four Jumps of Jive. Sometimes he sang the blues, and sometimes he sang spirituals, depending on which one meant...
...Austin Report may or may not conform to Bok's own beliefs about investment policy, but it clearly did not jive with Bok's method of handling a political crisis. And the report's chief proponent, Bennett, while a good financial manager, undoubtedly did not jive either. He voted against nearly all of the resolutions considered this Spring by Bok's pet committee, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibilities, a body formed in the aftermath of Mass Hall to aid the Corporation in deciding how to vote Harvard's proxies...
...EVERYONE KNOWS, the poor are the salt of the earth. The students of Cambridge think it is virtuous to imitate them, so they wear dungarees and dirty hair and tell "dudes" not to "jive" them. Actually there are many rich people who are quite salty. The behavior of the students might seem phony, but that is not what is so important. The truth is that virtue cannot be impersonated, and exists in people's hearts and minds rather than in their wallets and affectations. But this problem of equality is hard to solve. Perhaps the students of Cambridge are right...