Word: martin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand up, literally, for economy-curing taxes. Robert Dole mocks "the v word." The closest any candidate comes to articulating a vision is when he calls upon America's compassion for the needy, but such calls seem meant to indicate that the candidate is warmhearted, and not, as Martin Luther King Jr. would have said, that he has a dream today...
Parent participation is another priority for these bellwether principals. Rubye McClendon, who heads the dazzling, $20 million, virtually all-black magnet school, Benjamin E. Mays High in middle-class southwest Atlanta, put on a special celebration two weeks ago for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, attended by, among others, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, whose son goes to the school. Around McClendon, however, Young is just another father who is aware that the principal expects his participation at the school. "Parents are the key to discipline," says McClendon, "and they must know what's going on. We send the syllabus home...
Those are not the words of Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder, the football speculator cashiered by CBS Sports for enunciating a virtually identical sentiment in a Martin Luther King Day interview. Rather they were spoken by black Olympic Gold Medalist Lee Evans, a militant protester against white racism during the 1960s. Evans was quoted in a 1971 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article on the purported physiological differences between blacks and whites. In that story, among many other things, experts claimed that what Coach Al Campanis more recently declared was true: blacks are less buoyant. If there are significant genetic differences between blacks...
...safety experts' report, NASA called a press conference last week at which George Rodney, the agency's top safety official, said he had thoroughly reorganized safety and quality- control operations. This included a 30% increase in personnel assigned to these watchdog duties. A tough former test pilot and Martin Marietta official, Rodney declared that anyone with a safety complaint could now readily get the attention of key project managers...
Quoting liberally from his earnest student diaries and poetry, as well as from correspondence with influential period figures such as Tom Hayden, Carl Oglesby and Martin Peretz, he brings an extraordinarily charged period to life with skill and decency. Drawing on song lyrics, wall posters, street leaflets, Movement manifestoes and period literature, he creates a compelling picture of a time when world revolution was just around the corner and every political and cultural event seemed to be another manifestation of the same overarching zeitgeist...