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Word: tilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gotten any new exhibits together yet, this fall. Instead, you can look at pictures of Pusey Library in Gund Hall's "Books and Buildings" exhibit puzzle out Eudoxia Woodward's geometric flowers and name in the basement of 17 Quincy Street, or if really desperate, count the days till Hanukkah vacation on the Jewish calendars up Widener's stairs...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: galleries | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...best of the Newbury Street three-dimensional paintings will soon be superceded by a retrospective of Max Beckmann's prints (opening Oct. 2), and Graphics I and II, where Calder's print series "The Unfinished Revolution" remains til Oct. 18. print series "The Unfinished Revolution" remains till...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: galleries | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...till 1975, efforts towards winning a new Affirmative Action plan and protesting the University's historic anti-women, anti-national minority discrimination, were rather isolated from one another and relatively weak. The different movements (women's, national minorities', workers') operated separately and often eyed each other with mutual suspicion. Individual struggles were waged, but partly because of the way in which they were conducted (unco-ordinated, no far-sighted leadership, lacking a mass character) they were only successful in calling attention to the issue of Affirmative Action...

Author: By William Fletcher, | Title: The Spiders' Web: Affirmative Action and the Struggle for Democratic Rights at Harvard | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

Marry a white or even whistle at one. (Emmett Till, 14, from Chicago, was beaten and shot to death in Mississippi in 1955 for such a "crime," and other blacks were routinely beaten for "reckless eyeballing," i.e., looking at a white female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Things You Didn't Do, Boy | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...twirling a parasol, demonstrated in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment last year. "A man shies away from an overly aggressive female," warns Gale Childers, who nonetheless has been aggressive enough to be a South Carolina bank branch manager at the age of 30. Alabama State Treasurer Melba Till Allen owes much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed up for an official appearance in Birmingham driving a pickup truck complete with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/sexes: The Belle: Magnolia and Iron | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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