Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language course at Indiana University taught by Orlando Taylor, an assistant professor of speech. "Blacks are traditionally taught that phrases like T busy' and 'I be busy' are grammatically wrong," says Taylor. He relishes the effect when he tells students that such speech forms come directly from the language of their West African forefathers and are not a corruption of European usage: "Suddenly this causes the black students to feel that their language isn't so inferior after all. This is psychologically important -the black doesn't have to feel he is stupid...
Many blacks, if they had their way, would like to see autonomous black studies programs-administered, taught and attended by blacks only. White professors, they believe, are incapable of really understanding the black experience. White students are a potential embarrassment. Says Indiana's Orlando Taylor: "There is a psychological feeling among blacks against exposing some of the hang-ups they may have as a result of racism in front of a white audience...
CITRUS OPEN (ABC, 4-6 p.m.). $115,000 sweetens the pot at this meeting of golf's finest at the Rio Pinar Country Club in Orlando...
Last year San Diego's COMBO (Combined Arts of San Diego) raised $250,000 auctioning off such items as a new house, an African safari and a ride in the Goodyear blimp; nobody bid on the two-week vacation in a nudist colony. Orlando's (Fla.) PESO (Participation Enriches Science, Music and Art Organizations), which raised $162,000 at its auction last year, had no trouble disposing of 50 tons of orange-grove fertilizer and a $2,500 orange-grove sprayer. And in Phoenix this year, such items as hernia and cataract operations, stud service by a registered...
Production Binge. Gulf & Western's bid came in the form of a tender offer involving securities that it valued at more than $1.4 billion. Sinclair President O. P. (for Orlando Pendleton) Thomas' counterproposal of a get-together with Atlantic Richfield called for an exchange of stock worth slightly more than the Gulf & Western package. The extra money was not Thomas' main motive. In a letter to shareholders, his company questioned Gulf & Western...