Word: bigot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, such assurance only makes others' lack of depth more painfully obvious. Charron as the Cap'n is too busy mugging to create even a convincing caricature of the traditional Southern bigot, though Jeremy Rabinovitz contorts his own face to better effect as Cotchipee's wimpy-yet-enlightened son. As these two and others draw Purlie into more and more awkward predicaments, one realizes LaVergne's repertoire of emotions is limited to a few gestures--a frown and shake of the head for disappointment, and a recurrent toss of the shoulders to suggest the determined faith that is ostensibly Purlie...
Trying to "fight against the right" by working within the Democratic Party--the party of "ethnic purity" Carter, anti-busing bigot Louise Day Hicks and Klansman Tom Metzger--is a loser strategy. Reformist organizations like DSOC who hope to pressure the war-makers and strike-breakers in the Democratic Party offer no solution to the racism and economic misery endemic to capitalist rule. The fundamental task of revolutionaries in the United States is to break the ties that bind labor to the capitalist parties and build a party that expresses the independence of the working class...
Waugh partially was the curmudgeonly Blimp he invented for himself. He proudly described himself as a "snob . . . a bigot and a philistine" to various friends, but then seemed hurt when outsiders found him as obnoxious as he tried to be. He was also, as his letters reveal, generous in praising contemporaries like Graham Greene, George Orwell and Anthony Powell and encouraging to such newcomers as Louis Auchincloss and Thomas Merton. He was not entirely the Tory skinflint that his denunciations of the welfare state suggested; he assigned a number of foreign royalties to Catholic charities. His prejudices were surprisingly flexible...
Without knowing it, my young, liberal, pot-smoking parents were teaching me to be a bigot, and what's worse, a bigot against myself. From the very moment that I began to become aware of sexual stirrings within myself, I realized with horror that those erotic feelings were directed toward men, or at that point, boys. I valiantly tried to change my ways. I read Playboy, I talked dirty with the guys, I even got a girlfriend and made out with her at the drive-in. But it was no use. I was fooling everyone but myself...