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Word: lees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predominantly Negro congregation met in Cambridge's Western Ave. Baptist Church, two days after the funeral of Malcolm X. The man they mourned was in his own way more of a threat to our social status quo than Malcolm. His name was James Lee Jackson, a black man, a little man, dead--a casualty of the Selma, Alabama civil rights demonstrations. The main speaker at the service was a white man named Bob Zellner. Zellner is a native Southerner who joined the civil rights movement in 1960. He is universally respected...

Author: By Harold A. Mcdougall, | Title: Thoughts on the Summer | 6/7/1965 | See Source »

...James Lee Jackson was tired of the daily indignities, the weekly fears, the annual horrors of being a black man in the South. He fought back when the state troopers tried to beat his mother. That seems melodramatic to our academic minds. But it's hard to think of drama or melodrama when a stick is slamming into the back of your head...

Author: By Harold A. Mcdougall, | Title: Thoughts on the Summer | 6/7/1965 | See Source »

...great name!" trumpeted the critic for Prague's Vecerni Praha. Great, yes; new, hardly. Sergiu Celibi-dache has been conducting for 20 years. Still, the reaction was understandably familiar. As the most unheard and unsung of the world's leading maestros, Celibidache (chay-lee-bee-da/7-kay) is forever being discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: A Man Without | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...Lee Marvin's nose is a mished, much-mashed creation, but it is honestly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man for Vicaries | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...says tough, which Lee Marvin is. His specialty: playing the meanest, most thoroughly sadistic roles Holly wood has to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man for Vicaries | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

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