Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were second-class citizens with first-class talent, sleeping in ballparks when no lodging was available, eating on their buses when restaurants wouldn't seat them, playing two and even three games a day before driving all night to the next one. The end came shortly after Jackie Robinson ascended to the majors in 1947. Other black stars soon followed, taking their fans with them, and by 1950 the leading Negro League clubs were but of business...
...television news bears a special burden when it oversimplifies. Michael J. Robinson, professor of politics at Catholic University, has found that a sizable portion of the television-news audience reads no newspapers or magazines and learns whatever it knows of events from television alone. Some estimate this group at 20% to 30% of all television-news watchers. These are people at the lower end of the scale, economically and educationally. Before the advent of television news, this group was not much interested in news at all and was both stable in its opinions and passive in its political behavior. Robinson...
...renovating Sever Hall, once among the University's most famed works of architecture. "Sever has just been let go," Gerrity says, adding that to allow for easy repairs for the 103-year-old building, Sever will close in 1983. The renovations will be similar to those done in Robinson Hall, Joyce says, adding, "Robinson has come out pretty nicely...
...photographer Ansel Adams and Oscar Zariski, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, both confirmed yesterday that they will receive honorary degrees Thursday. In addition, representatives of the opera singer Leontyne Price indicated yesterday that she is also a recipient...
Photographer Ansel Adams, opera singer Leontyne Price and Oscar Zariski, Robinson Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, will receive honorary degrees at Thursday's Commencement exercises. In addition, several sources indicated yesterday that former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance may be on this year's list of ten honorary degree recipients...