Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INSIDE, a gaunt black St. Nicholas and an Uhuru poster, chains broken, decorate the walls of the modern office of Freedom Industries, Inc.--a new attempt in Boston to make black power mean money. Downtown Roxbury -- dirty streets sandwiched between grey buildings, and the problems of ghetto poverty--waits outside...
...shooting to be a corporate structure, a single unit of power--in influence, money, and talent," Archie Williams, president of Freedom Industries, explained. As an independent entity within the community, Freedom Industries can efficiently channel its energies toward creating a growth environment in the black ghetto...
...Council's vote followed a special meeting of the Radcliffe trustees who requested the Council to initiate such discussion with Harvard. The Council was not scheduled to meet until March 3 but held an unexpected session immediately after the trustees' meeting. Radcliffe trustees have only advisory power...
...TRUSTEES have no official power, so that any consensus reached on Saturday would be only an advisory opinion. But with the avowed wish of bringing alumnae deeper into college policy-making, Mrs. Bunting is likely to follow their sentiments; the College Fund Drive is still twenty million dollars short of its goal. If the trustees are in favor, the Radcliffe Council might then meet with the Harvard Corporation on March...
...complexity of a Herzog. Roth sums it all up in my favorite image from his first novel, Letting Go (1962), when one sunny day the middle-aged Fay Silberman "goes outside their place in South Orange and her husband is being driven all over the lawn in their power mower. He's dead in his seat, . . . a horrible thing. He crashed into a tree with that damn machine." Yup, having swallowed the American dream whole, Roth's Jews--like so many minorities before them--cough themselves to death as the hidden bones lodge in their throats...