Word: aryan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without such favoritism would attempt to conceal its true racist and sexist nature in some sort of warmed-over polemic. Yet such justification is not valid. Racism is racism, no matter who it favors and no matter what name it is given. You can call it "Affirmative Action" or "Aryan Heritage." One cannot logically or morally claim that it is illegitimate for a person's race or sex to adversely affect his evaluation by an employer or admissions committee while trying to justify a practice in which these very attributes are used to give the individual an advantage over other...
...there's a lotta kids out here wanta see him 'n take pichas, please..." The door is shut on their pleading. "Are you going to tell Blake he's got fans outside?" an uninitiated bystander asks. The tall toothy club member playing footman at the door raises his Aryan eyebrows. "Are you kidding?" he laughs shortly, a watchdog bark. Kitty would never have made it through that door...
...ditto Hitlers are about 14 years old. If nature does not take its course, killers are sent to eliminate the old men. Having manipulated both nature and nurture, Mengele hopes that at least one of the 94 boys will grow up with the zeal to re-establish a supreme Aryan order...
...third attitude. It's bad enough that the competitive, winning-is-everything value system is bound up with the Olympics, but to have ABC emphasize the nation against nation aspects brings back visions of Hitler's 1936 attempt to turn the Olympics into a showcase for the "superior Aryan race." The Olympics is a grand gesture of international amity; the friendships and love affairs between athletes of different countries have always been the best outcome of the Games...
...most rudimentary aspects of their personalities from being Jewish. "Hanka" is the story of a mysterious woman by the same name whom the first-person narrator meets in Argentina. She lived in the ghettoes of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation--saved only by her Gentile lover on the "Aryan side" of the city. Despite surviving the Holocaust, her experience living in a hidden closet, every minute fearing capture and torture, has convinced Hanka that she is dead: "Those who stood at the threshhold of death remain dead," she says...