Word: blurring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never Bend faded, but Chateaugay was a blur closing in on the leader, and for an instant it appeared that he was going to run away with the second leg of the Triple Crown. Then Shoemaker want to the whip, and Candy Sopts surged to a remarkably easy triumph over Chateaugay, with Never Bend third...
...find them") display an essentially free-wheeling attitude; they are not committed to party label or ideology. Others, like McGovrn, look to men who think similarly, regardless of nominal party. There is a few-McIntyre, especially-who look to the other party, hoping that their influence will blur the voters' awareness of their own party...
This self-consciousness is usually of an assured quiet, sort. They define the Radcliffe years as an arrow pointing toward them, with everything else fading into a grayish blur. What do they like best here? The privacy, the independence, the challenge, or some particular experience of the past, they answer softly...
...human beings, in other words, who manage to suggest both the death of individuals and the long history of the race. When Goodman draws a woman running, she becomes a symbol of panic; the vision of one man comforting another in some great grief is, in part, a dramatic blur, as if the two figures were melted together in a moment of common humanity...
...world everyone should be so judged. The Aryan scientist is a far more valuable person to the rest of mankind than is a Negro drunkard; and a Negro scientist is worth more than a white rapist; these cases of merit are clear. Our trouble is that as the distinctions blur, so do our judgments, and we use aids of blanket categorization rather than individuality. Until our standard becomes one of the individual as an individual, our problem will remain; and, pessimistically, perhaps the greatest difficulty will lie with the white liberals, who are blind to their own prejudice, that...