Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rainer presents this essential chronology in the opening essay of Work 1961-73. The remainder of the book documents 16 of her works through detailed descriptive "overviews," scripts of spoken texts, pages of old notebooks, old photographs, and manifestos published in connection with two of the earliest works. It's one of the only books on dance that lets the reader respond to the work as though he had seen it. The hefty volume The Notebooks of Martha Graham, brought out three years ago by Harcourt-Brace-Jovanovitch, certainly does not, and that high-priced publication is the nearest thing...
...calculated to sabotage people's faith in black doctors and black admissions programs, it is no wonder that he was quick to be called a racist. If anyone else had made those statements it may have made a difference in the way he would be treated. But Davis had spoken recently about genetics and racial differences; he should have known that people would relate that work with his statements. He should have realized that people would draw the conclusion that he believed that blacks are genetically inferior and therefore cannot ever be competent with the med school material...
...calculated to sabotage people's faith in black doctors and black admissions programs, it is no wonder that he was quick to be called a racist. If anyone else had made those statements it may have made a difference in the way he would be treated. But Davis had spoken recently about genetics and racial differences; he should have known that people would relate that work with his statements. He should have realized that people would draw the conclusion that he believed that blacks are genetically inferior and therefore cannot ever be competent with the med school material...
Died. Benjamin M. McKelway, 80, editor of the Washington Star (1946-63); of kidney failure; in Washington, D.C. A soft-spoken North Carolinian, McKelway joined the Star as a reporter in 1921. As its editor he was a champion of civil rights, including the right of District of Columbia residents to vote. In 1957 he became the first non-publisher to be elected president of the Associated Press...
...TIME, June 14). An increasingly aggressive North Korea issued strident demands that the U.S. withdraw its defense forces from South Korea. Libya's Gaddafi threatened to proclaim a "balance sheet" of member countries that, in his view, "leaned toward imperialism." Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, usually a quiet-spoken man, gave a shouting, lectern-thumping performance that amounted to a virtual declaration of war against Rhodesia and South Africa. "Assistance is urgently required," he said, "in the following fields: arms and ammunition, transport, food and medical facilities and personnel." Finally, the conference passed a resolution demanding an oil embargo...