Word: uplifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such as The Alphabet Song, Counting Song (Cricket), good-neighbor songs, meet-the-orches-tra productions, and stories accompanied by adulterated symphonic scores, e.g., Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline (RCA Victor). ¶ Special songs, which too often turn out to be inoffensive words set to poverty-stricken pop rhythms...
...down racial tensions that way. The blame lies with us whites. We've failed to build up a contented Negro community. There's too much want among them. They want homes, decent lives and a stake in their land. They want opportunity and cultural uplift. Give them these things, and you won't have to move beer halls." Next day Miller was swamped with calls from whites who supported his stand. Said a petitioner sheepishly: "We never looked at it like that...
After the Hasty Pudding Theatricals had produced a particularly "informal" play entitled "Builders of Babylon," in 1909, a group of horrified alumni gathered in consultation. To uplift the theatrical standards, they hired the director of the Princeton Triangle shows to coach the Pudding's next effort. After only a few rehearsals, the new director, bewildered at the haphazardness of the show, resigned himself to fate. "I give up!" he exclaimed. "At Princeton we put these plays on for money, while it seems that Harvard boys only put them...
...consciences. Further, he claims that by calling nation-wide attention to a distorted picture of the colored man's misfortunes, the NAACP drives racists and other less enlightened Southerners to intensify repression. He maintains that meanwhile there is no "Negro organization, philanthropic or agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South." Mr. Halberstam, despite his later denial of any partial viewpoint, strongly implies that the NAACP would be well advised to transform itself completely from an effective political pressure group to a neighborhood clean-up, paint-up, fix-up organization...
...interesting side commentary on these conditions is the total lack, apparently, of any Negro organization philanthropic or agitative, dedicated to sanitary and social uplift among the Negroes of the South. The NAACP may argue that it is strictly a political organization, yet this hardly absolves it of the responsibility to see that some reform agency exists in the Negro community. --DAVID L. HALBERSTAM...