Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success is the black person's ability to operate in both the black and white communities." Leon Chestang, assistant professor at the University of Chicago, believes that the black middle class is finally confronting and resolving its "twoness," that a new bicultural individual is emerging who can span the gulf between the races...
...Span-but not necessarily integrate. The tendency among contemporary middle-class blacks is to view integration less as a desired end than as a route to better jobs, housing and education...
...almost three years ago that Alsop discovered that he had leukemia, and doctors gave him roughly a year to live. But his disease proved atypical, and he lived beyond his allotted span. The best description the doctors could find for it was "smoldering leukemia," and between periods of hospitalization he had remissions during which he felt fine, wrote his columns and sometimes even played tennis. But he went through an ordeal of uncertainty, savagely ranging between hope and despair. Out of that ordeal he wrote his memorable book, Stay of Execution, an almost classic deathbed testament that is partly...
Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny. Fairport Convention has been one of England's finest folk-rock groups. A few of its members split to help form the excellent folk group, Steeleye Span. I can't testify to what the group sounds like in its present incarnation, but the return of lead singer Sandy Denny means the group will have a solid and lovely voice up front. Her best-known original song is "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" Rocker Brock Walsh plays second bill. Friday, May 10 at Sanders Theater...
...year-olds) said that they had drunk some kind of alcoholic beverage 50 or more tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage of such relatively frequent drinkers rose during the same time span from 27% to 40%. Senior class girls drank less, but they are catching up fast: 29% said that they drank 50 or more times in 1973, compared with only 14% in 1970. Notes Paul Richards, an adviser at a San Mateo high school: "This school represents a socioeconomic background from...