Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uncle Tom (Godfrey M. Cambridge) who hymns the supposedly subservient spirituals and cringes, hat in hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here is the bighearted, yuk-yuk-yukking Southern mammy (Helen Martin). Here is the corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain, Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke), a Simon Legree plantation...
From Rangoon's golden Shwe Dagon Pagoda, glistening under the monsoon rains, came the deep, resonant voice of Maha Ganda, the 25-ton bronze merit gong, notifying the worlds of spirit and man alike that a noble deed had been accomplished. Exactly 2,202 years after Buddhism was introduced within its borders, Burma reverted to the ways of its ancient kings and adopted Buddhism as its state religion...
...Buddhists in separatist-minded Karen and Shan states. But the amendment passed by a landslide 324-to-28 vote. Before he left for the neutralist meeting in Belgrade, ascetic Prime Minister U Nu, who three years ago took the vows of a Buddhist monk, pronounced the decision "the noblest deed, the greatest deed for Buddhists...
...consisting of outmoded ethical principles by which the F-Man limits himself. The F-Man believes "that virtue is its own reward, that a man's word is his bond, that money isn't everything. The failure wishes to be credited with good marks for each little deed. He regards his career as a kind of piggy bank. At the end of a lifetime he breaks open the piggy bank and finds that there is less in it than there was when he started...
...care and deliberation do not guarantee justice. Even if every venerable college president in the country trotted forward to say "guilty" it would not alter the facts. The tragedy of it all lies in the fact that though a Southern mountain man may move more quickly to a dirty deed of violence, his feet are set no more firmly in the path of prejudice than a Lowell ambling sedately to a banging...