Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rusher did not try to thwart Shockley's incessant stream of statements about heredity determining 80 per cent of our intelligence. He skirted Shockley's assumption that the "agony of the American Negro" could be related to his genetic properties, an assumption that Shockley claims could be wrong in only one out of 20,000 cases...
...made the sterilization of Negro rural women, whom he labelled the most genetically inferior, sound so innocuous as to be something even Johnny Carson would be willing to tackle...
...Eliot once wrote a review of the printed text of All God's Chillun Got Wings. He observed, "Mr. O'Neill not only understands one aspect of the 'Negro problem,' but he succeeds in giving this problem universality-in implying, in fact, the universal problem of differences which create a mixture of admiration, love and contempt, with the consequent tension...
...wife-Mary Livingstone is the original of Rhoda. Don Wilson, the pompous announcer, can be seen in Ted Knight's role on the Mary Tyler Moore show. The drunken bandleader, Phil Harris, is a 100-proof version of Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick. Rochester, the sardonic Negro valet, is the granddaddy of all the servants, black and white, who have hilariously put down their employers since the invention of the vacuum tube...
...eight symphonies and close to a hundred other works. At 79, with his name in all the right reference books, William Grant Still could justifiably lay claim to the title "dean of American black composers." Except that he does not choose to. It is not that Still rejects his Negro heritage but that he feels his music has as many roots in Europe as it does in Africa. "If I have an ambition," he says, "it is to be recognized as a composer. Just that...