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...another in this largest of all black societies? Or should we take as typical of the Black Experience the Afro-American community which was subjected to chattel slavery for over 200 years, and in the past century has been denied the elemental attributes of modern citizenship and humanity by devious, grotesque, and brutal forms of white racism...

Author: By Martin Kilson, | Title: The Intellectual Validity of the Black Experience | 5/16/1968 | See Source »

...United States Army Reserve and, by his own admission, "the greatest living coach in any legal sport," claimed after one setback. After another, McCurdy observed that "Providence brings in all those Irish imports so I think our best chance would be an IRA rebellion. It appeals to my devious nature to unite with the IRA. I'd call Kennedy but I don't know whether he'd be sympathetic...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Thanks for the Memories | 4/21/1968 | See Source »

Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, concerned. 'No one need apologize for the recent outbreak of violence in the ghettos of out cities," he said. "White America created the ghettos and now, with grotesque and devious racism, it searches for a peg-leg to stand on--claiming that the Negro has no cause to attack white institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Forum Explores The Dynamics of Violence | 12/11/1967 | See Source »

...groom, she devoted most of her life to having the vapors and impersonating one of those large-eyed, long-necked ladies in the once admired paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In fact, it was Rossetti who persuaded Jane to marry Morris. Small wonder that Morris came to regard his devious painter pal as "sometimes an angel, sometimes a damned scoundrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Gothic Socialist | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Once again, "Iron-Pants" Johnson rides to Washington, once again the Byzantine intrigues of the Communists and of the non, near-and anti-Communists are uncoiled. One learns that Karl Marx had whiskers and that Roosevelt looked poorly in 1944, that Communists are devious and that-etc. It would tax the attention span of a U.N. stenographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Red Mare | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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