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Investigators also try to convey an idea of a city's individual character and social life, and write up sections on the best nightclubs, hangouts, gay bars and discos...
...failed bid for the governorship. "I recognize now what I should have recognized then: that being anything outside of New York City in any election position is not for me. I'm like a fish out of water. It showed my spirit at the time...I didn't convey to the organization that was supporting me the kind of zest for the mayoral...
...Yorker magazine in 1979, "I find the Black community very anti-Semitic." "I was summing up the Kerner Report in effect...It said we were heading towards greater racial division with Black anti white feeling and anti-Black feeling by whites I also pointed out, and intended to convey, that a number or Black leaders that I knew expressed themselves in an anti-semitic way. Now it seems to me that what Jesse Jackson recently did kind of makes the point doesn...
...most compelling portions of the book, indeed, are those which convey the unseemly, but too often prevalent, aspects of Cobb's personality. He was, for one thing, an unreconstructed racist of the most virulent nature. Alexander recounts in sickening detail the numerous incidents during which Cobb would unmercifully browbeat some poor Black busboy or servant. Cobb also had a streak of hot temper that plagued him throughout his entire career and afterwards, making him a host of enemies and dissolving much of the reservoir of good will that would undoubtedly have accumulated among fans and teammates owing to his spectacular...
...University, conducted in Sanders Theatre, consisted of 15-minute lectures intended to convey the flavor of medieval academic life. Typical lectures explained the process of canonization (the making of a saint) or exposed the "heresies" of Galileo...