Word: overstreet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours later, Tommie W. Overstreet went to a hospital with a bullet wound in the buttock. The prosecutor got a court order for a doctor to remove the bullet, which matched Adelstein's gun. Overstreet was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...conviction was overturned this month by the Missouri Supreme Court, which ruled, 7 to 0, that the bullet should not have been removed without an adversary hearing. Otherwise, it said, the surgery constituted unreasonable search and seizure, banned by the Fourth Amendment. The court ordered a new trial for Overstreet...
...show was not black enough, some of the best-known black artists in the U.S. began to resent the prospect of being shut in a purely black context, as if they were anthropological specimens. They pulled out. Among them were Richard Hunt, Mel Edwards, Daniel Johnson, William Williams, Joe Overstreet and Sam Gilliam. Says Johnson, who happens to be an abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous because of the confusion of race and aesthetics." He sought out Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary-General at the United Nations, who sympathized with them...
Originally, the project was conceived as an all-Rivers show. But, aware of the black community's hard eye on whites who "appropriate" black history, Rivers involved six black artists in the project: Frank Bowling, Daniel Johnson, William Williams, Peter Bradley, Joe Overstreet and Ellsworth Ausby. "When I told them I was going to do a show on black subject matter, they looked at me as if I was a nut. So I said, why not contribute something, and they said, what are you-some kind of hip overseer? I said no, that I didn't think...
Died. Harry Overstreet, 94, author and lecturer who did much to popularize modern psychology and sociology; of heart disease; in Falls Church, Va. In numerous talks and books, most notably 1949's bestselling (500,000 copies sold by 1952) The Mature Mind, Overstreet sought to present in simple layman's terms the latest advances in human sciences. His technique seemed vastly oversimplified to some, but others found it both charming and instructive-as when he labeled the boy on the burning deck a moron, because "he did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation...