Word: bigote
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...Seattle family sent their daughter to a psychiatrist when they found out that she had dated a Negro, and the parents of another girl turned her over to juvenile police as "ungovernable." Even parents who consider themselves liberals are likely to quail. "My mother is a typical American clandestine bigot," says a New York girl whose family brought her up to be color blind-until she brought home her black suitor...
...discusses whether or not Jesus was a coward, a martyr, a proselytist, a bigot, a communist, an economist, a biologist, and other things. he argues his view of the apostle Paul as "a man of genius" but "violently anti-Christian." He presents discussions of free will, marriage, sex, celibacy, miracles, baptism, immortality, and hell. And he winds up with his reasons for believing that Jesus was "a thorough-going ant-Clerical...
...Enoch Powell is entitled to his bigot views [May 3]. What infuriates me is the 79% of Britons who support these views. Along with their austerity program to strengthen the country's gross national product, Britons ought to participate in the weakening of another G.N.P., that of gross national prejudice...
Trip to New Orleans. If Gait was remembered as shy and pleasant by most of his acquaintances, the Hollywood drinking crowd in the area of an apartment he rented and at the St. Francis Hotel, where he also stayed, recall him as an obsessive racial bigot, an abrasive patron who belted screwdrivers, dozed on the bar stool and bickered with anyone around. Everyone at the Rabbit's Foot Club remembers Gait's big dispute. A young woman had the temerity to tell him that Negroes were "good people." This so enraged Gait that he grabbed...
...course-book apathy and watch America's Number One Norern Segregationist chart her way to power not seven minutes distant, not five miles off. In this Harvard shows itself no different perhaps than the society of which it is a product. No more and no less than the white bigot of South Boston, or the raw-voiced howling redneck of Alabama, the genial scholars of education and urban problems leave their offices at Harvard, step into their attractive little cars and drive off to their isolated white homes in segregated suburbs...