Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon for President. And by 1962 Reagan had leaped a pole apart from his original Democratic allegiance: he campaigned for California Congressman John Rousselot, who ran-and lost-as an avowed member of the John Birch Society. The same year, Reagan was state campaign chairman for Birch Backer Loyd Wright in his Republican primary contest against moderate G.O.P. Senator Thomas Kuchel. In 1964 Reagan, as co-chairman of California Citizens for Goldwater, went on TV with a sensational fund-raising speech in which he criticized the TVA, called the graduated income tax an example of "immorality," and accused liberals...
...Harvard, Tony Marks did a good job covering Kassamali most of the game, Andy Kydes held the team together, and fullback Dave Wright played his best game ever; but it's not their responsibility to score goals...
...generation. Perhaps the key phrases are black autonomy and black pride, in addition to black power. The nationalist is a man who feels that it is time for the Negro to stop wondering if he's going to accept the white. He is a man reacting to what Richard Wright called a "frog perspective," a tendency to define oneself by white man's standards: "If you ask an American Negro to describe his situation, he will almost always tell you, 'We are rising.' Against what or whom is he measuring his 'rising'? It is beyond doubt his hostile white neighbor...
...important fact was that all factions of the Negro community were represented in TALO. As Chester Wright, an official of the organization, stated, "When we began, we did what the city has never done--we involved people, not a certain class of people. We didn't care if you represented the Society for Crippled Prostitutes. If you represented a body of people you were given a seat, given the same position and dignity of anyone else...
...this temporary group, turned out to be a very effective way of fighting police brutality. It also assumed the task of keeping order during the Watts Festival, and the patrol groups were manned by the "grassroots" faction of the community. "When the time came to man these cars," Wright recalls, "the people who could be depended on to be there turned out to be the same people whom the city labels 'bad' and whom the bourgeois Negro considers 'lowclass'...he boys that mingled with the crowd are the same who last year at this time chanted 'Burn, Baby, Burn...