Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, much important reporting is done by writers who have taken on new identities to gain insight into the problems of others. Seldom has the American Negro's plight been as convincingly portrayed as in Black Like Me; its white author, John Howard Griffin, darkened his skin and spent a month passing as a black in the South...
These are the arguments of desperate men. Pole position winners are seldom race winners at Indianapolis because cars are ran differently for qualifying and for racing. In qualifications, they use special fuel which burns quickly while providing tremendous power boosts for short periods of time. In the race they burn pure alcohol, which lowers speed but increases mileage...
...people across the country to become involved. I would not just have press conferences in Washington. I would go around to the schools and to small communities. I'd hope to bring new people to Washington to unleash what I think is a great talent that is seldom called upon except in times of crisis and war. I'd look for innovative ideas. And I'd look for people of talent who have no ties or commitment to the past but only to the future...
Occasional Clinch. Seldom do television's blacks have on-screen families, common vices or even sex lives. As Harry Belafonte puts it: "For the shuffling, simple-minded Amos-and-Andy type of Negro, TV has substituted a new, one-dimensional Negro without reality." Rarely does a Negro portray the villain; the networks are fearful of being accused of racism. As a result, the black character in the average TV drama is likely to represent what Belafonte calls either "Super-Negro" or "a button-down Brooks Brothers eunuch...
...news at the end of a 45-minute speech on company finances. When 62-year-old President Harold E. Gray, his hand-picked successor as Pan Am's chairman and chief executive officer, began to praise him, Trippe abruptly ruled him out of order. Sighed Gray: "I seldom defy the boss...