Word: marian
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There has, of course, been progress. Americans of middle age can still remember when blacks had to move to the back of the bus as it crossed the border from Washington into the Virginia suburbs, when Marian Anderson was not allowed to sing at Washington's Constitution Hall, when Jackie Robinson had to promise not to retaliate if spiked and spat upon as the only black in major league baseball, and magazines periodically published photographs of some charred black body dangling on a rope from a branch of a tree. "In the 1940s," says Pettigrew, "Howard Beach occurred every night...
Critics of Reagan's domestic policies say that the cuts in social spending he has made hit the poor particularly hard. According to Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, programs aiding impoverished children and families have lost $10 billion since 1980. The federal Work Incentive Program, which provides job training and support services to welfare recipients, has been cut from $210.5 million to $110 million in the fiscal 1987 budget. The President has proposed junking the program altogether...
...beauty and understanding to America were invited in and honored. Of the twelve recipients of the National Medal of Arts, six were unable to attend, but their daughters, sons, cousins and friends stepped up for them. Their achievements had preceded them long ago. The recipients were predominantly creators: Contralto Marian Anderson, Filmmaker Frank Capra, Composer Aaron Copland, Painter Willem de Kooning, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, Folklorist Alan Lomax, Critic Lewis Mumford and Novelist Eudora Welty. But also on hand were some who gave generously to encourage such work: Houston Art Patron Dominique de Menil, Seymour Knox...
...made something new. Boorstin looked at the gentle folks who came to the East Room to receive the new medal and mused on the special ingredients of creators. "The most important thing a government can do is foster the freedom in which the unexpected can happen," he said. Marian Anderson's voice rose from a humble church choir in Philadelphia. Frank Capra, an Italian immigrant, turned film into art when he made Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and You Can't Take It with...
Javits' wife Marian decided early on that Washington was a Government "company town" and refused to live there, pursuing instead her interest in the arts in New York City. This arrangement led to an unconventional marriage, which Javits described as "two lives interacting and intersecting but not congruent." The discovery in 1979 of Javits' illness, also called Lou Gehrig's disease, led to a new dependence on his wife and also to a final career crisis. Even after losing the Republican nomination to Alfonse D'Amato, the eternal public man refused to retire and insisted on running for a fifth...