Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great force in Boston's elective politics; a few thousand votes talk, but not too loudly, to the politicians. Kevin White, whose South End headquarters was across Tremont Street from the Centro, received unofficial endorsement from DeJesus, Molino, and other Puerto Rican leaders. But, in the main, these leaders have felt too weak to be partisan in city politics...
...according to Youth Alliance literature, is "to show that the young adults of this community can BE RESPONSIBLE." When the need to act as a police force was over, Youth Alliance switched to more constructive business. Alliance has taken on a wide range of social welfare activities. But its main emphasis is on trying to fill the gap between the school years, when Negro youth tend to waste their time, and the adult years, when those who care are busy with established political organizations...
...Kozol's main charge is that a powerful anti-Negro prejudice permeates the entire Boston school system. When he first arrived in the system, Kozol contends, a fellow teacher pointed wearily at children in the playground and said: "Those are the animals, and this...
...stone-grey East German city of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther posted his 95 theses, last week banners proclaiming SOCIALISM WILL CONQUER THE WHOLE WORLD overhung the main streets. At kiosks, vendors peddled a new kind of Kewpie doll - portly and dressed in the brown robes of an Augustinian monk. In one shop window, portraits of Luther and Lenin glared at each other across the open pages of an ancient Bible. Thus was the 450th anniversary of the Reformation celebrated in the midst of a "democratic socialist" republic...
Died. Julien Duvivier, 71, French movie director; of an apparent heart attack; in Paris. A veteran of silent films, Duvivier first used a series of character-study vignettes in 1937's Carnet de Bal to illuminate the movie's main theme. Among his other remembrances: 1951's The Little World of Don Camillo, starring Fernandel...