Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chosen little Negro children, first-graders all, would go to five schools that were previously all white. But the air was charged with tension. "We are in the backwash of a thing that's going on too close to us," said School Superintendent W. A. Bass. "The Little Rock situation is giving the impression of possible victory to those people who would defeat the Supreme Court decision...
...Negro girls in neat green dresses, their hair done up in braids, came into view. "Pull their black curls out!" screeched one white woman. As the Negro six-year-olds tripped quietly into the schools, the crowds grew wilder. A white waitress raised a tattooed arm, threw a rock and hit a Negro woman on the chest. A Negro woman guided her grandchild quietly through a gauntlet of hissing whites until she broke under the strain, undid one button of her blouse and drew a knife. "If any of you jump me, I'm going to use this...
Thus the weight of law and order, misused in Little Rock, aroused in Nashville, achieved a notable triumph. By week's end even the weakening rabble-rousers were beginning to reconsider. No Nashville white had shouted more loudly against integration than a burly, tattooed man named George H. Akins, who had been arrested by the police after some disorderly conduct. As he stood trial in City Judge Doyle's court, his eight-year-old daughter standing beside him began to cry, anguished by the spectacle of her father at bay. The man saw the child's distress...
...Estrovia (Chaplin) arrives in New York seeking refuge from a revolutionary mob. As he chants the praises of American freedom, immigration authorities take his fingerprints. Though the little mustache, baggy pants and cane are gone, flashes of the old Chaplin illuminate the screen as he pokes fun at rock 'n' roll, Hollywood movies ("The Killer with a Soul . . . You'll love him . . . Bring the family"), the wide screen, blaring jazz bands, TV commercials. But before long, a little boy (played by Chaplin's son, Michael, 11) buttonholes the king, and in a semihysterical rage rants about...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's hilarious spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mansfield as herself (TIME...