Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negroes are especially disillusioned. Though Southern blacks are now rousing themselves for Humphrey, Northern Negroes are holding back. "I've never heard so much cynicism about an election," says Nathan Wright, a leading organizer and observer of black militants. "Some are, perhaps, even cynical enough to vote for Wallace, on the theory that if this is what white America wants, let's help the issue come to the top." That may be an extreme possibility, but, as always, it is hard to say who speaks for U.S. Negroes. Moderates tend to agree with Whitney Young: "White liberals...
...NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY alternates Peter Weiss's Song of the Lusitanian Bogey with Daddy Goodness, by Richard Wright and Louis Sapin...
Died. Robert Morane, 82, French aviation pioneer, who helped build Air France, one of the world's largest airlines; in Paris. In 1911, eight years after the Wright brothers began the air age, Morane started Morane-Saulnier, the company that produced some of the first bombers used in World War I. Des Messageries Aériennes, an air-transport company also founded by Morane, grew into Air Union, one of five large aviation firms that merged to form Air France...
...NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY alternates Peter Weiss's Song of the Lusitanian Bogey with Daddy Goodness, by Richard Wright and Louis Sapin...
...American history, great architects, such as Bulfinch, Richardson, White, Maybeck and Wright, have created a style and generally stuck with it to the end. This is not the way of Nat Owings and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. If one looks at the works of S.O.M., there is an astonishing range and volume of design. S.O.M. does not play variations on a theme and is perhaps the first major architectural firm to remain uncommitted to its past...