Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hobson has shrunk five inches since doctors 18 months ago diagnosed his disease as multiple myeloma. Although hunched and incessantly hammered by pain, he is dictating a book on the black man's problems in America to his secretary at his town house in Southwest Washington. His words may be strident, but his views are not hysterically militant. "I call racism a rationalization for economic exploitation," he told Hathaway. "It's now become a part of our nervous system, a part of our institutions. But I think it goes further than the fact that...
...first met Tyrell when we went out for freshman football together in high school. Although he is a powerfully built 205-pounder today, he weighed in at a slim 130 back then. He had always wanted to play football. When growing up on the southwest side of the city, he had heard that South Shore High needed good ball players and had a good academic program as well. So he told his mother he wanted to go to South Shore, and she moved the family several miles into our school district...
...isolates two trees and focuses on their branches and on their dominant relation to the environment, a closeup rather than a landscape. (O'Keefe was married to Alfred Stieglitz, the eminent photographer that greatly influenced both his wife and Strand.) Yet both works maintain the majestic space of the Southwest, a testimony to each artist's involvement with the people. "Ranchos of Taos Church," (1932) confirms this understanding of the Spanish civilization and furthers Strand's abstract theme is its illustration of curved butresses and noble masses of with adobe...
Eventually Papagianis played soccer in the Catholic Youth Conference, then junior cup soccer, and finally three years of high school varsity at Southwest during which he scored 78 goals...
Odds are that Getchelt had heard of Papagianis who had compiled an impressive athletic record at Southwest High School in St Louis after immigrating to the United States from Greece Papagianis had made all state teams in football and soccer and played second base on Southwest's all state baseball team...