Word: uppityness
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Gordy is disdainful of all criticism, personal and professional. The harsh reviews? They are merely "attacks on an uppity black." As for frequent rumors that Motown is Mob financed, Gordy counters: "We have a choice of suing people for such stories or ignoring them." Employee resentment over his dictatorial managerial...
Take, for example, the character of Mrs. Walker, the dominant figure in Rome's exclusive American circle. She is a kind of bridge between high society and the real world. Instead of rejecting Daisy outright, as all of her uppity friends do, she tries to save the young girl's...
"DYNAMITE HILL" is what they call the part of Birmingham, Alabama, where Angela Davis grew up. They call it that because, during the long battle of Birmingham in the early '60s. Bull Conner's boys used to take their recreation blowing off firebombs under the homes of the prosperous and...
Now head of a women's rights program for the Association of American Colleges, Mrs. Sandier, 44, likes to wear a button that says UPPITY WOMEN UNITE. Last week she told some 85 top college administrators and faculty members meeting at the Irvine campus of the University of California...
The final push was provided by growing feminist pressure in an election year; more than half of the country's registered voters are women. Although many women could not care less about the amendment, those who do came out in force. Representatives from such varied groups as the National...