Word: nessness
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AFTER THE FALL. In a play dexterously staged by Elia Kazan to represent the ebb and flow of events in memory, Playwright Arthur Miller examines the women who (he believes) have done him wrong, and the wrongs he did them. The play's close ness to Miller's life belongs more properly to voyeurism than to art, and it is naggingly self-absorbed in the importance of being Arthur...
...spend their pay, totaling some $6,000,000 a year, at Guantanamo. All this should just about finish the incident -unless Castro wants to escalate the puny battle into a campaign to force the U.S. out of Guántanamo, thereby testing the Johnson Administration's firm ness, just as it is having its full share of troubles in Panama and half a dozen other places...
...when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobody-ness"?then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait...
...classic story, he has a patron. It is the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, a counseling agency that finds poor Negroes with rich minds and then finds colleges and scholarships for them. In 15 years of scouring South and North, NSSFNS (which is commonly reduced to "Ness-feness" in speech) has successfully planted 9,000 Negroes in 350 mostly-white colleges, and last week it revealed its chief asset: the Negroes' own passionate desire to succeed...
Under the leadership of DuBois, Crises went to as many as 100,000 readers every month, reporting on the struggle for equality and urging readers to take courage and pride in their Negro-ness. Many a Negro writer was first published and encouraged by Crises. Because of the magazine's financial stability, DuBois was able to say what he felt, without threat of recrimination for the NAACP...