Word: raisin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dashing, efficient career wife, who else but Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn starring in their ninth movie together? For the Negro fiancé, who else to choose but the smooth and handsome Sidney Poitier? What would Poitier's mother be if not sweet and sensitive, and Beah Richards (Raisin in the Sun, The Miracle Worker) is the best sweet-and-sensitive Negro mother in all of show business...
...most frabjous funnyman in town is Claes Oldenburg, a prematurely balding troll of 38. Among his what's-its on display at the Sidney Janis Gallery are: 1) a 6-ft.-long stuffed-and-sewn canvas loaf of raisin bread, with six detachable slices and 42 removable raisins; 2) a 12-ft.-tall, droopy white canvas "ghost fan" (its mate, a 12-ft.-tall black fan, wilts in mid-air beneath the space capsules at the top of Expo 67's U.S. pavilion); 3) platters bearing real Jell-O and real marzipan molds of the artist...
...Plump Raisin. Pat's publicity problems were the least of the White House headaches. As the months ticked off, Social Secretary Bess Abell, Distaff Press Secretary Liz Carpenter and their combined staffs of seven became al most totally engrossed in nuptial arrangements, letting routine social functions pretty much run themselves. Mrs. Carpenter coped with staggering demands for invitations and information from all over the world. She also worked out an embargo system and a schedule of minutia-laden releases in order to control the flow of information. Last week's wedding-cake handout was replete with detail, down...
Last year, for example, George Thomas, associate in Education, and Davenport Plumer, research assistant in Education, found that they and their students at Timility Junior High in Roxbury had trouble talking to each other. They tried a number of devices--including class reading of plays such as "A Raisin in the Sun"-- and had some success, but the researchers coulln't tell whether the difficulty lay in themselves, the students or the school...
...carried from the Charleston Movement, spilled over into the class room. In the 95 degree heat of the South Carolina lowland summer, they voluntarily attended classes six hours a day. They started classes themselves when the teachers were late. They stayed after classes were supposed to end, talking about Raisin in the Sun, set theory, Storm Thurmond, and Malcolm X. Most of them did more homework in those six weeks than they had in the previous year. None droped...