Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week's Supreme Court decision on the Little Rock school integration crisis, the traditional lines of basic national conflict were hardening around the South. The conflict: states rights v. federal law. In the South last week, as it had been through plantation growth, secession, civil war, surrender, reconstruction and recovery, states' rights was the legalistic bond that held most Southerners together. "We live in a federated system," said Virginia's courtly Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. in Richmond, "in which the Federal Government has no powers other than those delegated by the states." "It must...
...went back to Van Buren High School along with 600 whites in Van Buren's second year of court-ordered integration. They expected little if any trouble. Last year even Governor Faubus boasted in his progressive moments about how successful integration had been in other places than Little Rock Central High School. Arkansas communities integrated last year: Fort Smith. Fayetteville, Bentonville, Charleston, Hoxie, Ozark. Hot Springs, Van Buren. But this year the Negroes were welcomed back to Van Buren High by a band of 40 to 50 white boys, mostly duck-tailed types, jeering, catcalling, howling, holding up placards...
Nelson Rockefeller thus faced the first ballot at Rochester unopposed and, as delegates waved banners proclaiming WE WANT ROCKY and ROLL WITH ROCK, his defeated rivals were still trying to figure out how he had done it. Pondered Leonard Hall: "There's magic in that name. I figured it would be just the opposite, that I'd go in and shake a woman's hand and that'd be that. Rockefeller did the same thing, and the women jumped for joy. I guess I didn't have that political sex appeal...
Though the British colonials spread the color bar throughout their empire, at home the British have clucked over racism in South Africa, given a friendly welcome to Negro G.I.s and enjoyed a feeling of moral superiority over Little Rock. But last week England discovered for itself the queasy sensation of racial tension...
...winger: Osservatore Romano has every right to criticize the film, although "they never seem to worry about religious ceremonies shocking the layman." Back came Osservatore with a blast at a sequence in which the Devil warms up Eve for the apple scene by bouncing her off in a frenetic rock 'n' roll. "This caricature of the female half of mankind would be enough to justify our protests. Nowhere does the Bible say that the female human was under devilish influence or in connivance with the Devil...