Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secondary Education Act passed just before the Easter recess, stirred great interest among constituents back home, and Congressmen have been even more enthusiastic about the Administration's companion bill, which authorizes new subsidies for colleges and universities. By the time it reached the House floor last week, Adam Clayton Powell's Education and Labor Committee had more than dou bled the Administration's original request for $260 million to finance the bill during its first year...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Adam's Rib (1949), with Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell and David Wayne...
...Negro−literate or illiterate−who does vote in future elections will have to bear with the ordinary frustrations of democracy: broken promises, corruption, demagoguery, the essential voting weakness of a minority. Perhaps Negroes will at first elect a number of Adam Clayton Powells. But Negro political influence will grow in outright victory of Negro candidates in constituencies where Negroes are a majority, in balance-of-power situations elsewhere, in the minds of vote-hungry politicians everywhere, in political combination with the majority of whites, who wish the Negro well...
...Wilkins, Louisville, 1963: "The Negro citizen does not subscribe to violence as a method of securing his rights. But he has come to the point where he is not afraid of violence. He no longer shrinks back. He will assert himself, and if violence comes, so be it." Representative Adam Clayton Powell, at a Black Muslim rally in 1963 in New York: "Anything we get we will have to fight for, to seize for ourselves. We will invade the white man's heaven, the United States." James Foreman, then executive secretary of S.N.C.C., in August 1963: "There...
...gods and goddesses journey toward their Gotterdümmerung through abstract-mobile backgrounds created by light projections with only the minimum of necessary realism: an oppressive Mycenaean Valhalla and a Gibichungen hall studded with hundreds of bleached animal skulls. A cast headed by Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Theo Adam, James King, Anja Silja, Lili Chookasian and Leonie Rysanek responded to Wieland's direction with magnificent singing. Under the baton of Conductor Karl Boehm, the orchestra became accompaniment and comment, echo and counterpoint of each gesture onstage...