Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...places, music and night spots of Harlem from 1920 through 1940. The Broadway production opened in March at a New York repertory theater, and supplied many cast members for the national company that is doing the Boston production. Many of these actors, including Mabel Lee, Jay Flash Riley, and Vernon Washington are, in turn, recreating roles they originally perfected during the 1930s and 1940s...
...community life. The voices of hatred have not all been stilled. But they have been muted; when they speak at all, it is in whispers and innuendo, rather than the full-throated bigotry of earlier times. And blacks can now talk back: the dialogue is conducted between equals. Says Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League: "I would rather do business with a converted Southerner than a Northern liberal. The Northern liberal is basically paternalistic. You feel he is always looking down on you. But the Southern white man who gets converted to the cause-why, he would...
...exile, spent mostly in Europe. Then 23 years old, the duke filled two notebooks as he explored the exotic New World, writing of "very pretty" and "coquettish" Cherokee women, "gross, lazy and inhospitable" whites in Tennessee, and George Washington's "most exquisite politeness" during a dinner at Mount Vernon. The journal has just been published in France as a gesture toward the U.S. Bicentennial...
...airborne caravan headed up the Potomac Valley, Ford again asked for a change in plans, to hover over Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. His aide, Jack Marsh, a Virginian and amateur historian, urged the President to swoop across the river and study Fort Washington, a stone redoubt built between 1814 and 1824 to protect the capital. As the chopper went on, Ford viewed the steeple of Christ Church where Washington had worshiped, still tall and proud along the parkway. Nearing the White House, Ford turned to his companions. "Did you get the same feeling as I got this...
...Carlson Mount Vernon...