Word: bigot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long presidential selection process does serve a purpose. It can expose a candidate's faults, like Jesse Jackson's attitude toward the Jews [NATION, March 12]. Who would have guessed that deep down Jackson is a bigot...
...declare the theft as wrong understates the implications. To just say that I am offended misrepresents my main concern. Though purchased with care this past August in Jerusalem, my first mezuza will be ungrudgingly replaced. My unqualified trust, however, will never be. Somewhere out there a bigot persists, couching his prejudice in such sheepish acts. Even alone, he is a danger worth confronting. The smallest acts may veil the deepest sentiments...
...Aunt Julia and I watch in openmouthed amazement, by changing props and costumes Pedro Camacho transformed himself [into] an old lady, a beggar, a bigot, a cardinal... During this series of lightning-quick changes he kept talking, in a fervent tone of voice. 'And why shouldn't I have the right to become one with characters of my own creation, to resemble them? Who is there to stop me from having their noses, their hair, their frock coats as I describe them?' he said, exchanging a biretta for a meerschaum, the meerschaum for a duster...
...fight it after long talks with fellow Senators and an unusual two-hour private meeting with Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Surmised Hooks: "In his own way, I think he doesn't want to be remembered as a bigot." In essence, the compromise devised by Senators Robert Dole, Edward Kennedy and Charles Mathias decreed that local voting laws could be adjudged discriminatory on the basis of their "effects" rather than their "intent." Civil rights groups say intent is almost impossible to prove in court; the wording of the bill precludes...
...also a pathological liar, frustrated dreamer and contemptuous failure. Andrew Hayes, 16, who was among the many witnesses who implied that the defendant was a homosexual, testified that he had been offered money by Williams to perform oral sex. Others, including Bookkeeper Denise Marlin, indicated that Williams was a bigot. Said she: "He used to call his own race niggers." In his summation, Assistant District Attorney Jack Mallard concluded: "Any person who could kill over and over for no apparent reason would have to have a split personality, be a Jekyll and Hyde." The fiber evidence, the portrait...