Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least polite to other values. It did not astonish Royko when the mayor stayed inside his modest Bridgeport bungalow-he still lives there in his eminence-and not even the curtains twitched during the few nights in 1964 it took his neighbors to give the heave-ho to two Negro students who moved in a block and a half down the street...
...come true-buddy to the hero, access to exciting places and beautiful people. There are mornings on the tennis court where Toback, an experienced player, barely manages to beat Beginner Brown. There are afternoons at the Black Economic Union, the organization Brown founded to generate capital and talent for Negro enterprises. There are evenings at discotheques that run wildly into all-night parties at J.B.'s with celebrities, athletes and girls in all manner of shapes and shades. At one point Brown and his girl of the moment, Toback and his, engage in mixed doubles on a king-sized...
...target number" for the library is 1837 volumes, Guinier said. This number represents the works cited in the bibliography, The Negro in the United States, which will become the "core collection." of the library, according to the department report issued last Fall...
...lick the system by disregarding its failings, by finding four good things for every bad. She loves interior decorating, and is blithely unconscious that her metallic designs are inherited from her world. She loves skiing and swimming and horseback-riding, while ignoring the gas stations and telephone wires and Negro gardeners that surround her at the Concord...
...schools-is more money. The commission recommended a tripling of federal aid, to $360 million per year. But the schools also require a lot more help from the private sector. Last year the Nixon Administration responded to the pleas of black-college presidents by increasing federal aid to Negro schools by $30 million, much of it on a matching-grant basis. So far, most of the colleges have been unable to raise the additional capital from private donations, and thus have had to let their federal funds go by the board...