Word: bigotism
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...figuring that he would be an easier target than Arnall for G.O.P. Candidate Howard ("Bo") Callaway in November, drove up to polling booths by the thousands to vote for Mad dox-many in cars bearing Callaway bumper stickers. By one estimate, they cast 100,000 votes for the balding bigot, enough to give Maddox a startling 430,000-to-360,000 victory. As a result, liberals and Negroes next month are expected to either support a write-in candidate or vote for Callaway, himself a segregationist but of a subtler hue than Maddox. Thus the G.O.P. has every chance...
...more esteemed as a feat of stenography than as a work of literature. In the 19th century, the book was accurately revalued as the first great biography in English, but its author was dismissed by proper Victorians as a whoremongering buffoon. "Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay called him, "a bigot and a sot, a talebearer, a common butt in the taverns of London." But Boswell was to have the last word -in fact, several million of them...
Nasser and his Arab socialist allies, however, view his campaign as an anti-Nasser, anti-left alliance. Almost nightly, Cairo radio rakes Feisal as "the bearded bigot" and the "Pope of Islam." "We hear someone who says he is pursuing the way of unity," Nasser sneered of Feisal in a speech last week in Da-manhur. "But we find he is in effect unifying reactionary forces." Feisal replies calmly to such attacks. "My task," he once said, "is with my people and my country, not with others...
Consequently, Cavanagh faces easy reelection in November. Last month he received 63.4 per cent of the vote in a 12-man primary. His main opponent, a salesman named Walter Shamie, wants to unleash the police and, despite denials, is obviously bidding for the casual bigot vote. He will probably not get too much of it. Cavanagh, like President Johnson against Barry Goldwater, has too much else going...
...Mayor himself may also have gotten through to the casual bigots. By taking a strong, unmistakable stand for equal treatment for all individuals, and making it work, Cavanagh has shown some casual bigots that the consequences of liberal policies are not so terrifying after all. He is appealing to their casualness rather than to their bigotry, and apparently successfully. Detroit is no paradise for Negroes, but they get better treatment from police there than in other large cities and they have more and more opportunities to move into neighborhoods that are integrated--and seem likely to stay integrated. In contrast...