Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atlanta, which deservedly prides itself on a tradition of racial moderation, had weathered the restive summer of 1966 without a single Negro riot-until last week. When violence finally erupted in the sleazy streets of the Summerhill district, it came as a peculiar and perverse triumph for Stokely Carmichael, 25, the fiery Negro demagogue who leads the Atlanta-based Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, at once the youngest and most belligerent organization in the civil rights movement. For weeks S.N.C.C. sound trucks had rolled through the Georgia city's black ghettos, blasting out Carmichael's battle cry, "Black...
...Extremely Unfair." Yorty had come prepared to explain to the committee the peculiar, almost unique government of the city of Los Angeles: a bewildering entanglement of jurisdictions that intertwine with county and state and deprive the mayor of authority over most of the city's major functions. The subcommittee, which obviously had not done its homework in certain vital aspects of Los Angeles government, was not interested. As soon as Yorty had finished his opening statement, its members turned to the problem of Los Angeles' disadvantaged minorities and what Yorty was doing about them. Kennedy and Ribicoff zeroed...
...Kind oi Shroud. In his final plea, Sinyavsky said: "It is always the same hair-raising quotations from the indictment, repeated dozens of times and mounting up to create a monstrous atmosphere that no longer bears any relation to reality. It creates a kind of shroud, a peculiar kind of electrified atmosphere in which the boundary between the real and the grotesque becomes blurred, rather as in the works of Arzhak and Tertz. In general, a real 'Public Murder Day'-but only with two actors: Daniel and myself...
...this makes for the peculiar brand of CNVA activism--it is far more morally than politically motivated. It is the kind of activism that prompts John Phillips to set out on a personal peace walk, unannounced and unpublicized, from Boston to Providence. "I would just saunter along and start to talk to people," Phillips says. He had hoped that the Boston to Provincetown march would do the same thing on a larger scale, but even from his perspective, it is proving a mild disappointment...
...hardly walk. Yet the principal appeal of the practice may come as a shock to Westerners. Levy states flatly that footbinding survived, despite its anatomical and emotional horrors, because the Chinese for more than a thousand years were a nation of foot fetishists who adored the pedicule with a peculiar passion...