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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Different Colors. Despite great improvement in the past ten years, and such "laudable exceptions" as the Chattanooga Times and the Richmond Times Dispatch, many Southern newspapers still follow a "double standard" in news. Says Race in the News: "Negroes . . . are almost always identified by race; whites . . . are not . . . Hardly ever does 'Mr.,' 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' precede the name of a Negro in the regular news columns . . . To refer to the widow of a lynched Negro as 'the Mallard woman' . . . is to deny her even the elemental dignity of grief . . . The Negro...
...some of the gaudiest garments, shirts, kilts and shawls, ever worn by man. Most of them were made of embroidery so delicate that the tiny stitches covering all the cloth looked like meshes of the finest weaving. Across them pranced birds and wildcats in reds, pinks, greens and yellows almost as fresh and brilliant as when they came from the dye vats. From their edges dripped cataracts of brightly colored fringe; the shirts had masses of fringe instead of sleeves. In life, the man who wore them must have delighted the eyes of his barbaric gods...
...wrapped his affairs in such obscurity that few but the world's top bankers have ever heard of him. When in Manhattan, he lives in a nine-room apartment in a quietly elegant midtown hotel. Born in North Carolina, Heineman went to Europe at 16 and stayed there almost half a century building electric tramways and power plants (including Ebro) in a dozen countries, with U.S., British, Belgian, Swiss and French capital...
...turned out, Cervantes found himself-and the form that became the modern novel-quite by accident. He started out to write a piffling burlesque of the popular chivalric romances of his day; Don Quixote became a masterpiece almost by mistake...
...knight flat on his back; the next time the giant, when he slashes at him, turns into a row of wineskins and fills the inn with his blood; a hostile army, when the knight does battle with it, turns into a herd of sheep, and the shepherds stone him almost to death...