Word: stampeders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In Florida, Carter's share of the black vote was 70%; in North Carolina, 90%. Carter swept the black precincts in Chicago and other Illinois urban areas, and his only primary defeat-in Massachusetts-would have been far more crushing without his 40% share of the black vote in...
But not all. When leaks embarrass, the first official cry is that national security has been compromised. On the record of the past few years, this charge simply will not wash. Too much has been stamped confidential in order to conceal hanky-panky and ineptitude, not secrets. Even the celebrated...
The system is enforced through pass laws. Every adult African must at all times carry a pass with his picture in it, properly signed and stamped. If he loses or forgets it, he is liable for several months in jail and deportation to the starving homelands. To remain in the...
"I know I'm still a Harvard man," he reassured me. "I always will be--it's stamped me." And before he let me leave, he wanted to hear about me and my Harvard experience.
A second trauma was his elder sister Rose's prefrontal lobotomy in 1938, one of the earliest performed in the U.S. In some fundamental way, Rose was Tennessee's muse, the "White Goddess," in Robert Graves' term, who inspired him to write. She, of course, is the...