Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT first attracted many of us to the Beatles, as public personalities rather than as musicians, was their public manner. "How did you find America?" one reporter asked them. "Turn left at Greenland," John said. "We were funny at press conferences because it was all a joke...you can't...
The Beatles, the beat, were the agony by which an entire generation was to be turned on to the energy of their bodies, the energy of their long repressed desires and fantasies. The Beatles were a catalvst that released a tremendous amount of wild exuberant joyous energy. The young girls...
The South wouldn't have to merge its two school systems all at once, Warren said. Instead, it would have to take steps toward desegregation "with all deliberate speed." Negro parents, NAACP lawyers, and the few Northerners who were familiar with the situation soon learned to despise that phrase.
Things finally erupted in Clinton, Tennessee. After a Life photographer had done a story on "Peaceful Integration In Clinton," Clinton's parents struck back. Weeks of rioting and violence followed, and spread to other cities in the South. The most important result was that Southerners learned that President Eisenhower was...
Once white Alabama learned about this soft underbelly of Freedom of Choice, the people who had resisted it so vehemently suddenly found themselves defending it as "the best hope for quality education in our state." Obviously it wasn't going to turn their schools into segregated ones; and if it...