Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Pollock, was to limit the rights of workers. Samuel Tucker of the N.A.A.C.P. blasted Haynsworth's "persistent hostility" to the Constitution's promise of racial equality. Eight of the House of Representatives' nine Negro members endorsed a statement opposing confirmation. They said it would "unequivocally tell black people that the one significant route for peaceful resolution of society's racial injustices ... is gradually being phased...
...helicopter touched down on the White House lawn last week, her doubts seemed to be promptly dispatched. She was met with full military honors, a 19-gun salute and a warm welcome from the President. Obviously heartened by her reception, Mrs. Meir thanked Nixon "for enabling me to tell my people that.we have a great and a dear friend...
...severely about the ears with a blunt amplifying instrument. A hard-rock Modcom musical gives a theatergoer an acoustic third degree. His eardrums are refunded on the sidewalk. However, the test of a good musical score remains unvarying: not whether one can hum the songs but whether one can tell them apart. Hair has a beguilingly individuated score; Salvation does...
...white alienation, he does have a decided knack for good, pungent dialogue. "What do you want from us, baby?" shrieks a black homosexual to a desolated Roddy at film's end. "Whatever answers you're lookin' for, we ain't it. No matter what they tell you, baby, we ain't got rhythm." The fault of this modest and diverting enterprise is that, like Roddy himself, it can never resolve the question of black and white identities and, by attempting to combine the two, produces only an uneasy shade of gray...
...people's backs." says one Harvard economist just returned from Cuba. "you don't have people doing the onerous tasks they have to do." And while there is little doubt that masses of students and intellectuals have been doing volunteer work in the cane fields, few observers can tell whether they are there because they want to be or because they are coerced...