Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soul Talk Regarding your article on Black English [Aug. 20]: As a radioman in the Coast Guard, I must be articulate in use of standard English language, but when I go home to Bed-Stuy I tend to use "been gone" and "maf work." My point being, don't knock it, man, till ya tried...
Since Powell, on the Queen with Carter, was standing near by, Carter asked Civiletti whether it would be all right for him to talk to his press secretary about the charge. Civiletti said it would not, so Carter waved Powell away as he listened to the rest of the story. At 4 a.m., two FBI agents boarded the steamer and interrogated Powell, who not only denied the story but said he had never even been to Studio 54. In Washington, Jordan also denied the charge. He had gone to Studio 54 for about an hour once last year, he told...
...Americans were unconvinced. Determined to talk to Vlasova in a place "where she could see for herself that she is free to go or stay," as McHenry put it, the State Department proposed that she be interviewed in a room adjacent to the plane. This request was also refused. "Such strong-arm tactics," said Schell, would hardly be necessary if Vlasova were genuinely willing to leave...
Educators see the registration drive in a broader context, linking it to the traditional civics and government courses required in the schools. Detroit Superintendent of Schools Arthur Jefferson plans to invite elected officials and local experts on housing and energy to talk to students. "I want to give the kids substantive information prior to the 1980 election," he says. "I want to sensitize them to the political process and the issues so they will be so hyped up they will want to vote...
...distraction. Yet he also lived long enough to become the somewhat puzzled darling of academics and film historians. Samuel Beckett sought him out and wrote a screenplay, Film (1964), in which Keaton starred. When the two met for the first time, they discovered that they had almost nothing to talk about...