Word: spading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spade Cat. His new program may have the strangest schedule on network television (Monday, Tuesday and Friday, from 10 to 11 p.m. E.D.T.), but the show is better than ever: a limited number of guests (usually four) and commercial breaks...
...triumph of Maclnnes' trio is City of Spades. Maclnnes was one of the first whites to say very loudly that black is beautiful; the light-heartedness of his evidence still rings out. When he brought a character named Johnny Fortune from Lagos to London twelve years ago, few people in England were thinking of racial tension or predicting an Enoch Powell. Maclnnes set Johnny and a white friend loose in an African and West Indian shadow world full of jouncing characters with cross-rough names: Mr. Peter Pay Paul, Mr. Karl Marx Bo (a future Prime Minister for sure...
...lure of a little imitation joy." By the end, the tinsel has peeled for Johnny Fortune. After a police frame-up and a month in jail on a marijuana charge, he sets out to join his family in Lagos-full of shame and defiance: "Let them kill every Spade that's in the world, and leave but just two, man and woman, and we'll fill up the whole globe once more and win our triumph!" In this novel, Maclnnes is more than a mugs' guide to a city and a race he loves and mourns...
...Fifteen." Sharp snap of gum. The spade chick looked uneasily at Billy...
Again, let us call a spade a spade. The Air Force ROTC program provides pre-professional education in military officership. That fact should not shock anyone. If we are to be accepted on campus, we must be accepted for what we are, not for what various interest groups would like to reduce us to. AFROTC is not at Harvard or on any other campus to train students to go "tiptoeing through the tulips." AFROTC may need a little trimming here and there, but we hardly need the meat...