Word: williamsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KATHARINE WILLIAMSON...
...Rider," "Mystery Train," and an encore of "You've Got All the Money," that was nearly worth the whole set. His harp work was stunning, and very much the focal point over the band's easy chording. Butterfield learned to play harp from the Chicago masters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, and James Cotton especially. He's mastered their techniques, and added his own ideas and his strong sense of taste, that is, what sounds right. He plays only slightly derivative blues harp, and his fine blues singing matches it. Paul Butterfield has one of the best blues voices...
Charley himself, former Pro Football Player Fred Williamson, thinks the controversy is useless and that in fact the change seriously weakens the impact of the title. "Media people are expecting repercussions based on the significance of the word nigger to white people," he says, "but blacks don't have the same reaction to it any more. Changing the name just reflects the insecurity and guilt of some whites who think the niggers in their town will be offended and throw rocks at the theaters." Paramount Vice President Charles Glenn adds: "I wonder what the media would call a film...
Klein had advanced higher on the ladder than Maier and Williamson. In July, 1969, the Geology Department raised him to the non-tenured rank of associate professor. In Spring, 1971, the Department recommended that he be promoted to full professor and be granted tenure...
...academically conservative Harvard History Department, it is still unestablished. The East Asian wing of the Department supported Thomson's candidacy, but the Americanists opposed it. The Americanists won, and Thomson lost. In a similar episode, Ernest R. May, an American historian, backed the bid of Sam Williamson, a specialist in European diplomatic history. Caught between the two opposing camps of Americanists and Europeanists, Williamson was neither fish nor fowl. The Department would not recommend his promotion...