Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to the floor. Shortly thereafter she was a Sunday supplement cover girl possessed of "a dewy freshness that is a blessing to behold." But Shirley was also a natural actress before cameras. Before long she had earned two Academy Award nominations (for Sweet Bird of Youth and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs...
...dangerous, the bullnecked, bald Anslinger wanted to "get rid of drugs, pushers, and users. Period." He urged judges to jail offenders, then "throw away the key." After Anslinger helped push through the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, arguing that "an epidemic of dope addiction" was crippling America's youth, marijuana was virtually banned from medical practice and deleted from the United States Pharmacopoeia. Anslinger denounced as "soft" all proposals to legalize drugs or to adopt British-model maintenance programs for dispensing heroin to registered addicts...
Only fear of the answer prevents me from asking these questions of the brothers and sisters around me. It's not really my fault that black people are daily brutalized by their employers, by the police, or by "bands of mischievous white youth," as The Boston Globe calls them. Maybe I shouldn't be worried about U.S. policy toward apartheid South Africa; no one else seems more than intellectually concerned. It used to be that "the community" meant a great deal to black students; after a while, they only used the term a great deal. Now I really...
...part of the answer has to do with the philosophical/political beliefs of a man denied admissions to Harvard because of his blackness: Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, who became the foremost defender of Black academia at the turn of this century. Dr. DuBois contended that for the most intellectually talented Black youth, no obstacles should be permitted to arise in the pursuit of educational fulfillment. And decades later, after thousands of lynchings, sit-ins, marches, and prayer meetings, it is no less true that knowledge is most powerful tool in the hands of an oppressed people: "knowledge of the self, as well...
...John Patrick Sears, 35, an amiable, Georgetown-educated lawyer with a scholarly understanding of the tides that move American politics. Despite his youth at the time, he was a prime strategist of Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, served briefly as a presidential aide but left after he was frozen out by the jealous H.R. Haldeman. He became a guest lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, then returned to a lucrative Washington law practice. Though the Reagan committee is headed officially by Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, even he admits that Sears is the master planner...