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...realize that many Americans revere the shortened word form, but unfortunately the word "Abo," referring to Australia's Aboriginal Embassy [March 13], is received by Australian aborigines with about the same amount of enthusiasm as the word nigger or coon by Negro people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1972 | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...comedies." Universal and Fox will contribute their own versions of the black private-eye story. A bit more imaginative, Columbia has a black western, Buck and the Preacher, ready for spring distribution; it is directed by Sidney Poitier, who stars with Harry Belafonte. Paramount will release The Legend of Nigger Charley, about a slave who kills his overseer and heads for the frontier-a Southern western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Black Market | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...what you're doing here is a part of the confrontation process, because Harvard is one of the outstanding representatives of the liberal establishment. They have a very nice, clean-cut liberal veneer. The President of Harvard never called anyone a nigger. But the same Harvard President would participate in the exploitation of the resources of the people of Angola, which is just as bad as a racial epithet. And you have got to make that clear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The PALC Teach-in: | 3/31/1972 | See Source »

There have been other changes in Wallace the campaigner. The man who once declared that he would "out-nigger" anybody on the stump, whose most durable public image was blocking the schoolhouse door to blacks, seldom lets a racist tinge color his rhetoric these days. The shift is partly a response to the more moderate temper of the times in the South, partly a reflection of the fact that he no longer needs to. George Wallace has become his own code word; his people know where he stands, and his country style permits infinite shadings of nuance and allusion. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: A Jarring Message from George | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...students refused to attend classes, calling the curriculum irrelevant. Then fistfights between blacks and whites broke out for four days in a row; one white student was hit over the head with a chair. When he tried to make peace, Cabell, who was 26, found himself in the middle-"nigger" to some whites and "Uncle Tom" to some blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Death of the Middleman | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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