Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creative brainwork. The computer culture that can perform the undreamed-of in milliseconds is in its domestic style drifting back to the frontier, with people eating in the kitchen (a kitchen often blended into the living room) and organizing the family to do the domestic chores. Taking note of this, Russell Lynes observed: "We have moved a long way mechanically; we are almost where we started humanly...
Despite that warm interlude, Johnson appeared stiff and serious when he mounted the stage of the Opera House. Beginning on a note of polite hope, he declared that, "Where historically man has moved fitfully from war toward war, in these last two decades man has moved steadily away from war. More than 50 times in these 20 years, the United Nations has acted to keep the peace." He called for an "international war on poverty" and an "alliance for man," made a pitch for world birth control. Said Johnson: "Let us act on the fact that less than $5 invested...
Both whites and Negro leaders feel that ministry officials have shown little interest in working with the community toward their common goals. This spring, the ministry derided a pledge, signed by a number of white and Negro civic leaders, to provide equal job opportunities. A note of class-struggle belligerency has crept into the ministry's words as the strike has spread. Baptist Minister Laurice Walker, a staff member of the project, whips up plantation workers by denouncing "the man in the big white house taking food out of your wife's and your children's mouths...
...fraud, Gampu has been clapped into a Johannesburg jail, charged with attempted murder. His friend in need, sent over by Legal Aid, is Stanley Baker, whose wife (Juliet Prowse) keeps prodding him to "care about people." Notwithstanding its bizarre and colorful appeal, Dingaka ends on a cautious old-fashioned note of praise for the white South African who leads the simple blacks from ignorance into light. Audiences elsewhere may not fully appreciate the victory, for in a land ruled by apartheid the light seems dark enough...
...became radio's first regularly scheduled news commentator. Scorning a script, he spoke only from sketchy notes-and sometimes from none at all. Scarcely glancing at the clock, totally unflappable, he rattled off the news without muffing a line. In his early days of broadcasting, a pianist stood ready to knock out a tune if Kaltenborn should run out of words, but the pianist never had to strike a note...