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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rock 'n' roll is doing no worse in making a virtue out of monotony than Mitch Miller and his big-time outfits have done in their attempts to make a virtue out of monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...think your June 18 article on rock-'n'-roll music is ridiculous. This type of music is for young people to enjoy while they can, not for crusading adult hypocrites and pessimists to criticize and discriminate. The rock-'n'-roll fad is equivalent to the Charleston and its music of the '20s. There were people like you then to condemn this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...fuddyduddies feel about Dixieland when you were young? How many of you wore bell-bottom trousers and danced the Charleston? How many of you were juvenile delinquents? I wear blue jeans and dig rock 'n' roll. I am not a delinquent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...praise the writer for his brilliant evaluation of "rock 'n' roll"? I am 14 years old and am no square and I hate every note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...chief work was the approval of a "Capricorn contract between the races," which would replace racial loyalties with African patriotism. Since it had already gone through eleven drafts, the resolution passed largely without dissent. Some of its provisions: 1) common citizenship in each territory; 2) single voting roll for all citizens, but more than one vote for specially qualified citizens; 3) gradual release of all land to buyers, regardless of race; 4) improved educational standards so that children of all races can eventually be taught in the same schools. The Capricorn Society's idea for multiple votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: The Capricorn Idea | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

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