Word: whitney
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White America is only now beginning to understand the diversity of Negro society. That dawning recognition may be a hopeful sign. Instead of racial discrimination, it might mean human discrimination, a capacity to distinguish among the enormously varied aspects of black America. Says the National Urban League's Whitney Young: "Somehow the white community has got to get over the idea that we should provide them with a black messiah who will be all things to all men. Whites seem to be able to distinguish their own crackpots from the rest, but when there's a riot...
...whites, fratricide is just becoming apparent. Black leadership now appears without direction. Whitney Young remains one of the two or three most influential black leaders, but many Negroes feel that he is trying to satisfy all factions. Roy Wilkins, despite the 450,000 membership of the N.A.A.C.P., has lost more ground than any other leader, with the decline of integration as the principal issue and the loss of the N.A.A.C.P.'s traditional adversary role. To be sure, the constituencies of older Negro activists are underestimated, especially in a press that publicizes the shocking more often than quiet accomplishment. "Some...
Three of these remarkable beasts stood last week, grazing or reflectively chewing their cud, in a rectangular pasture that was actually a blue-lit room in Manhattan's Whitney Museum. The dim light evoked the ambience of a silent desert night, but what chiefly provided the mood-a wonderfully eerie mood of austere melancholy-was the shambling, work-scarred beasts. Their hair was realistically matted, their baleful glass eyes shaded by the camel's peculiar glamour-girl eyelashes. One even wore a camel's remote, superior smile...
...cavernous fourth story of Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with its stark slate floors and 17-ft. ceilings, can seem as empty and remote as an abandoned temple. A-architecture, it is a demanding frame, diminishing the trivial but magnificently enhancing the heroic. Currently, frame and subject seem superbly conjoined in a display of 46 huge, brilliantly colored canvases by Helen Frankenthaler. There, on the impassive walls, color gardens of imaginary flowers bloom with subtle petals of mauve, maroon, crimson, orange, cinnamon. There are stately, bold, blaring rectangles of cherry and apricot, leaping palegold fires, whistling blue sails of form...
Died. Major General Courtney Whitney, 71, longtime aide and confidant of General Douglas Mac Arthur, who resigned from the Army in protest when MacArthur was recalled from Korea by President Truman, stoutly defended the general before a Senate inquiry and in a biography, MacArthur: His Rendezvous with History; in Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington...