Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...racist overtones." Black separatists, in fact, do favor having their own schools, and some others have become skeptical of integration as a panacea. But most blacks still want it, or at least demand a genuine choice in the matter (see EDUCATION). Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Washington Research Project, found Nixon's "appeal to black separatists' feelings" clever but irrelevant. "In effect," she said, "this is a separate but equal policy, nothing more than an endorsement of continued segregation." As New York Psychologist Kenneth Clark saw it, "This is a denuding, a significant slowing down...
Even in the Deep South, blacks are uniting on the local level to assert their economic strength against the white-dominated status quo. In central Mississippi, for example, some 400 blacks have joined the Simpson County Civic League to operate a low-rent housing project, purchase fertilizer in mass amounts to reduce operating costs for about 100 black farmers, and open a cooperative grocery store to lower prices...
Though flattering offers are made weekly, she remains uncommitted to a single project. Despite her firm opinions on everything else, she seems not to have made up her mind about herself. "I have signed no contract with anyone," she says. "I don't know where to go next or how to get there." But she is not likely to hesitate long when someone finally points the way. "I like being told what to do," says Geneviève Bujold. "I wish someone would tell me what...
...keep up with the world in which we live," said Crowley, "but it's pretty hard sometimes. You get involved with a project and you close in. You can't even have a personal relationship-get laid or-have sex. My day from morning to night has been in the cutting room. That Rap Brown thing comes through and we're standing there talking about the titles...
...will call him Immanuel." But the R.S.V. helped pave the way for such a change two decades ago by translating the Hebrew almah as "young woman" (elsewhere in the Bible it is used to describe young women who are clearly not virgins). Even the Jerusalem Bible, a Roman Catholic project, uses "maiden" in the Isaiah verse, a compromise which allows, but does not demand, the reading of "virgin...