Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that reason the audience approves of Jimmie Blacksmith's opportunism--a way of getting up and beyond the social constraints of white Australia. Tommy Lewis presents a fascinating character, and yet there's something wrong in his eyes. It's nearly impossible to pin down his expression. He is pleasant to his "boss", and yet maybe there's something else there. English is not his language, and hence there is an impenetrable distance, a profound gap in comprehension. It is all pleasantly surreal, this place Australia, so vast and so unnaturally quiet. The Aborigine customs fit it well, the strange...
...then former mayor, Charles Saunders, rounded out the ceremonies with this hope, addressed to those who would celebrate future anniversaries of this city. "May they be able to rieterate this sentiment which I am sure we fell today," Saunders said--"The line have fallen unto us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage...
...first recorded Black history in Cambridge is far from pleasant: in 1755, when slavery was still common practice in this area, two Blacks were convicted of "petty treason" for murdering their master. Drawn on sleds to a public execution site, one was hanged and the other burned at the stake...
Wallace says that the remedy to the resentment between Black men and women lies in the opening of a "dialogue"--one that won't be easy or pleasant. At Harvard, there are steps in that direction, including Freshman Black Table's symposium on Black male-female interactions held last year, and the Association of Black Radcliffe Women's plans for a similar forum this year. But the ultimate solution Michele Wallace would suggest to Black women at Harvard and everywhere is the same as the reason Black Macho was written--"Because my personal answer for Black women is to become...
...TIMES CHANGE, and conditions get better, and what was once a brutal but necessary struggle is now a pleasant memory, a film history for the United Auto Workers to underwrite. Right--except that the mills in Lawrence are empty for a reason: everyone went down South, where there are no unions, only brown lung, bad money, and the "right to work." Sure--except the AFLCIO, the Teamsters and the rest have become more toadyish than ever, barely squawking when plants close down, doing nothing when presidents decide to put the lower class on welfare so the middle class...