Word: stemmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help. In British eyes, the only solution was to weld them into a federation with Southern Rhodesia, whose large white police force and greater degree of self-government might quell the cries for kwacha, or independence. It was a scheme worthy of Rhodes, but not even federation could stem the tide. It lasted exactly ten years...
...dances, familiar Broadway exercises in directionless motion, stem from the King of France school of choreography-"the King of France with 40,000 men went up the hill, and came right back again." Most of the score seems to have been written in invisible notes and dissolving lyrics, although two numbers, I'll Never Be Lonely Again and If I Ruled the World, have a plaintive and perhaps durable charm...
...feel that such beliefs are wrong, and that they stem precisely from the fact that universities do not have Communist teachers, so that people have no basis upon which to judge the scholarship and creativity of Marxists and Communists. In England, France, Italy, and many other non-socialist countries, Communists hold professorships at the greatest universities, and there they are respected by their colleagues and students as learned men and women, and accomplished teachers...
Second, the essay fails because it does not probe deeply enough, even on its own terms. Zigmond postulates that most of the white volunteer's problems stem from the preconceived notions he entertains of the Negro and the Movement. Fine, but why treat only two of these notions, and at that the two have been most throughly discussed already, Granted, some whites join the struggle because they see the Negro as the Oppressed One (the "guilt-ridden white" in Zigmond's terms) or as an agent of massive social change (the "utopian white"). This however hardly exhausts the possibilities. Some...
...DAVID STEM Fairfield, Iowa