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...belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans greeted him by throwing bananas on the field and making monkey noises. This was not in the 1950s...
...belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans greeted him by throwing bananas on the field and making monkey noises. This was not in the 1950s...
DIED. FELICE BRYANT, 77, co-author, with her late husband Boudleaux Bryant, of such 1950s hits for the Everly Brothers as Wake Up Little Susie and Bye Bye Love; of cancer; in Gatlinburg, Tenn. The Bryants' more than 800 songs were also recorded by Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Buddy Holly...
...history indicates a mistreatment of Chinatown during the 1950s that has yet to be righted. Consequently, area planners have a special obligation to ensure that plans for the Chinatown site accommodate community need, and the legislature should consider other compensation methods for the neighborhood...
...satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. "Hit the masses with shock and awe." Lévy claims he couldn't care less about his image, only the books. He defends French intellectuals for being right when governments were wrong: in the 1930s against fascism, in the 1950s against France's colonial presence in Algeria, in the 1970s against the Soviet Union, in the 1990s against the Serbs in Bosnia. "It's always easier to be a fascist than a democrat," he says. "Daniel Pearl was killed because he was a living refutation of his killers' view...