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...appropriate" black history, Rivers involved six black artists in the project: Frank Bowling, Daniel Johnson, William Williams, Peter Bradley, Joe Overstreet and Ellsworth Ausby. "When I told them I was going to do a show on black subject matter, they looked at me as if I was a nut. So I said, why not contribute something, and they said, what are you-some kind of hip overseer? I said no, that I didn't think you had to be a chicken to talk about an egg, but that I was acknowledging their special expertise. Ya know, how they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bronx Is Beautiful | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...some financial help from his parents, entered the University of Texas, the undergraduate club for the state's business and political leaders and an academic must for an ambitious young Texan. He stacked books in the library for 17? an hour and doubled as campus representative for Beech-Nut chewing gum. Handsome and articulate, he ran for student body president-partly because the job paid $30 a month-and won. He completed his academic career by marrying the campus beauty, Idanell Brill, University Sweetheart, Cactus Beauty and Relay Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: New Texan on the Potomac | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...short, I am a pro-football nut. And I share my insanity with thousands -nay, millions-of others who have turned a weekend entertainment into a mystique, an obsession, and a secular religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: MYSTIQUE OF PRO FOOTBALL | 11/9/1970 | See Source »

...publicly hanged before the trial, before any charges were brought against her; she was the target of every police agent and nut in the country," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communist Rally Demands Release Of Angela Davis | 10/22/1970 | See Source »

...late. "He's logical, a tough reasoner; in short, a tough nut. Yet out of hand he's unacceptable even though he was the best Dean the Faculty ever had," a Washington friend said. "He's got a 'A' on his forehead. People know he was wrong on the War and consequently, they think he's wrong on everything...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Seven Men Who Won't Become The 25th Harvard President | 9/23/1970 | See Source »

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