Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know the play was good," insisted the star. "Everybody up there on the stage can act and sing and dance better than any critics, so who are they to criticize?" Actually, the critics gave Muhammad Ali, better known as Cassius Clay, good reviews for his Broadway debut in Buck White, but they found the show pretty pallid. It went down for the count after seven performances...
...Jesus. The reform program that some rebel councilmen had prepared for the meeting seemed reasonable enough. As shaped by Massachusetts Clergyman Stephen C. Rose, the program proposed, among other things, that the council become more of a lay organization engaged in specific social and religious tasks and that its white denominations turn over mission resources to the black and the poor. As a measure of its concern, Rose said, the council should also elect a black general secretary. Yet the insurgents never presented the proposals coherently at the assembly. And when the chance came to nominate a candidate, they threw...
...intensely annoying ploy often used by doctors," Potter wrote, "is to treat Patient as if he were as ignorant of all anatomical knowledge as a child of four." He will, for example, "refer to the blood corpuscles as 'the white fellows and the red chaps,' " and will inquire of a constipated lady patient: "How are the bow-wows this morning?" An effective way to reduce such nonsense before it starts, Potter advised, is to cast doubt on the doctor's professionalism: "I am, I suppose, right in calling you Doctor...
...What is man but his passion?" the opening poem asks, and Audubon first materializes spellbound by a white heron -as innocent in his passion as the proverbial noble savage. But even in the pure heart of the wilderness, Audubon runs across a romantic poet's notion of evil: other men. And Audubon's passion evolves toward a second level of meaning as Christian suffering...
Yesterday was the second time in a week that OBU has moved into University Hall to dramatize its demands for a 20 per cent quota of non-white workers on all Harvard construction projects and equal pay for painters helpers...