Word: tending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Black power" as potentially the most destructive phenomena on the civil rights scene. What must be added, however, is that, in the civil rights movement, as in other revolutionary movements, the narrower the gap between aspirations and reality becomes, the greater the frustration and anger over the remaining obstacles tend to be. We would be expecting something more than human from the Negro were we to demand that he stifle these emotions. The problem, rather, is to channel Negro anger and dissatisfaction into constructive avenues, such as selfhelp. That is what this commission and its federal and state sister agencies...
...Loeb for a quick chat and to give a pat on the back. Nor is he like the warm, rather paternal Hamlin. Both the associates seem to be around more than Chapman, who sticks to his office. "Dan Seltzer and I don't agree," he says. "I tend not to go to a rehearsal unless I'm invited...
Because of this, people at the Loeb, especially new people, tend to think of Chapman as cold and inaccessible. "From what I'd heard, I'd envisioned him as an ogre, or Michelangelo's God," recalls one Cliffie. "But when I met him, the first thing he did was to kiss my hand. He's dashing, witty, and very charming...
Minnesotans tend to be a proud, even chauvinistic group. They glory in their lakes, their baseball team, their culture (Minneapolis' Gutherie Theater), and their "heartland of America" state character. Minnesota politics, particularly with Hubert Humphrey's vigorous D.F.L., always seemed a bit more exciting and nationally important than anyone else...
...grade school, as one suburban Cincinnati teacher puts it, "kids at this age are still just kids to each other." Friendships are quickly and easily formed, and some white children eagerly wait outside school each morning until the bus from the city arrives. In high school, white children tend to be more reserved in their welcome, and some shrug off the presence of newcomers with such noncommittal phrases as "they don't bother anybody." On all levels, there is occasional tension. A Negro girl in a Cincinnati suburb complained that white girls pulled her hair and asked: "Is that...