Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norman Charles Evelyn Light-wood, Bart., the writer of this "letter," is an English baronet of vaguely indefinite parentage and vaguely indefinite gender. His sexual hang-ups are presumably traceable to experience gained in his mother's bed. His illegitimacy is traceable to his uncle's having had a similar encounter with the good Lady. All this leads one to wonder whether this over-used four-poster might have been the cause of Norman's sister's difficulties as well. She is a lesbian who, dressed as the man she always wanted to be, gains a high post...
...Marines had ever contested. It combined the horror of a Guadalcanal jungle with the exhausting steepness of the slopes at Chapultepec. Added to that were fusillades of bullets as ferocious as at Tarawa and showers of shrapnel that turned the forest into a tropical Belleau Wood. But "the Rock-pile," as Viet Nam's latest big battleground has come to be called, is weirdly unique. There, just south of the inaccurately named Demilitarized Zone, a task force of six Marine battalions has been battling two entire divisions of North Vietnamese regulars whose apparent aim is to invade Quang...
...Wood mentioned Exodus, a project that buses Negro students to white schools, as one of the Roxbury organizations which is both legitimate and effective. Wood, one of many parents interested in Exodus (he is not in a leadership position) praised its work. But if Exodus is "legitimate" it is also involved in the cross-fire controversy between those who think whites can work effectively in the Negro ghettos and those whose hopes have been dashed by experience. A Mrs. Butler, a parent worker at Exodus, said: "It seems silly. We're just people working together, it doesn't make...
...only legitimate organizations in Roxbury are those which sustain a Negro leadership and are supervised by a community board," Wood said. The other illegitimate groups, Wood continued, are fast losing their influence and, he predicted, will either be ignored or physically "pushed out of the community...
...There are still white educators coming into Roxbury interested only in getting a grant to make guinea pigs out of Negroes. It's all for themselves and none for us. We don't want these dilettantes any more," Wood said. "We must keep Dr. Funk out of the picture and do it ourselves," Wood added...