Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have to knock the farm down...
...Harlem ever develop a selfless, home-grown leader, this much is certain: that fury will be aimed against whatever barriers of discrimination still exist, and it will take some costly resistance to keep them from falling. As a Negro patrolman on 125th Street put it, "You have to keep knocking on the door. If you don't knock, they won't hear you." In the long, hot summer of 1964, the question for New York and for every U.S. city with a Harlem of its own was: How hard would Harlem knock next time...
...lead. The rain had stopped and the track was drying now. Surtees wrung a few more r.p.m. from his Ferrari, bypassed Clark and opened a 3-sec. gap. Unable to beat Surtees on the straights, Clark fell in behind the faster Ferrari, waiting for opportunity to knock again. None came, so Clark made his own-with an astonishing maneuver that only a handful of drivers would dare attempt: he simply slid around Surtees on the outside of a hairpin turn...
...call on Professor Peter Alexander, even in the glass and cinder block guest suite on the top floor of Leverett House F Tower, is to walk into another world. You knock; he opens the door. "Professor Alexander?" you say. "Yes," he says, and blinks. "Won't you come in? Will you have some ginger beer?" You try to explain why you have come, but he waves you to a chair, apologizes for having nothing but ginger beer, and asks you won't you have some. Only after you are seated and have at least refused his offer, are you allowed...
...Dylan and, like him, is a disciple of Woody Guthrie. Only 23, Ochs has put to music most of yesterday's headlines: Too Many Martyrs (about Medgar Evers), Talking Cuban Crisis and even the Automation Song. The songs most likely to last are poetic if heavy protests like Knock on the Door, an indictment of Soviet terror, and Lou Marsh, a ballad about a social worker murdered in Spanish Harlem...