Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black man. He in spite of the White pressures, White chains of oppression and White discrimination has managed to maintain a family structure. He has managed to work his way onto the stage of life where the lights of opportunity shine brightly. And he has made his mind up to take himself a major role in the modern American Drama. Little Black children everywhere can hold their beautiful black heads high and beam with a black pride that no one can take from them. For the Black man has shouldered the weight of this country's evils and yet maintained...
...mirrored in the lines that crisscross the face of his 1938 Self-Portrait. "I'd like," he wrote, "to try my hand at sculpture, pottery, engraving and, by means of painting of another kind, to get in closer contact with the masses, whom I have always kept in mind...
...Sussex squire. In three years, after leaving Cambridge University, he ran through what seems to have been a sizable inheritance. He decided to gamble himself back to affluence, did well for a while, and then grandly staked all his winnings on a two-horse race, having made up his mind to recoup his fortune in the U.S. if he lost. Later he wrote: "The dear, handsome little horse ran most gamely, but in the last hundred yards tired under the weight and just failed to get home. So America was under the lee, and I felt quite excited and bucked...
...Astor Place, where Manhattan's Bowery slum, hippieland, an industrial zone and a growing clump of theatres all converge. No one, from hippie to day laborer, fails to turn his head as he walks by, an some stop to stare. The work has become an image in my mind which is always positively associated with the area. This one sculpture gave the Astor Place neighborhood a coherent image which symbolize and summerizes its disparate parts...
...wants a Boulanger in charge. What the campaign so far does suggest, however, is that most voters are confused by the war, unsure about what to do about urban blight, and dismayed by charges of pervasive racism. They want more than a welter of new commitments, more than a mind-boggling array of plans to finance urban redevelopment. Rather, they want precisely what Lyndon Johnson has not given them--a kind of rhetorical coherence, a feeling that if the problems are tough, at last someone has a decent idea of how to start dealing with them. Americans--students and black...