Word: matter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves as white as the sun outside their 125th Street window. They achieved this color transformation, you see, with the help of some amazing pills sold to them by a Jewish pawnbroker who got them from God (who is black), (Or maybe you don't see- it doesn't matter...
...blacks as anything other than types, whether they be "good types" or "bad" ones. Blacks are placed in a "Stepin Fetchit" box or a "Stokely Carmichael" box or a "white" box or a "Sidney Poitier" box. The thing is that no black- or no human being, for that matter- ever fits into any box. As Morning's family changes its voice from an Amos'n' Andy inflection to a John Lindsay or Wilson Pickett or Rap Brown inflection, the white audience is scared out of its wits. It doesn't know how to react. (The suburban liberal in the second...
...starry night, and four sad people have gathered to say goodbye to the man who breathed life into them all. These people- called Miss Indigo Jones, Robin Breast Western, Filigree Bones and Fibber Kidding- cannot agree on any specific facts concerning their dearly beloved, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is what they do agree on: It is all no use. No use to go on living in a world where all we can wait for is the inevitable senseless killing- the death that comes more and more from a war, a riot, a plane crash, a sniper...
CORNELL DARTMOUTH: All the girls up in Hanover are singing an old standard standard these days-"I Want to be Bobby's Girl". in honor of coach Bob Blackman. Year after year, he makes it. No matter what kind of rejects arrive in the small New England farm town, they come together to form good football teams. As Katie Winters can tell you. Bob Blackman's got a secret. One of his tricks today will be a Houseparty Weekend. He said earlier this week, "This will be Houseparty Weekend at Dartmouth, so it won't take any extra urging...
...matter how I hurry, I'm hampered by the crowds...