Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lillian Smith carried her advocacy of nonviolence into the political field, joined the fledgling Congress of Racial Equality in 1946 and worked alongside the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. "The means," she insisted, "must be full of truth and love and wisdom." This summer, sickened by the rise of the black-power movement, she angrily disavowed both organizations, charging that S.N.C.C. had been perverted by "a mixed-up mess of 19th century anarchism and 1930s Communism...
Cabling her resignation to CORE National Director Floyd McKissick, Lillian Smith warned in one of her last public utterances: "Now we have new killers of the dream...
...Roman palazzos favored by turn-of-the-century architects to the spiraling extravaganza of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim, and Mies van der Rohe's austere glass cube for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, the $6,000,000 Whitney, designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith, was the event and talk of the evening...
Died. Gus Edson, 65, cartoonist, who in 1935 switched from sports on the New York Daily News to comic strips when he took over The Gumps after the death of its creator, Sidney Smith, for the next 25 years kept the noisy ("Oh, Mini"), argumentative family (Andy, Min, Uncle Bim and Momma De Stross) yelling happily at one another until its popularity waned and he turned exclusively to Dondi, the sentimental story of an Italian waif in the U.S., currently in 138 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
Died. Lillian Smith, 68, Southern gentlewoman author and front-line campaigner for racial equality; of cancer; in Atlanta (see THE NATION...