Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against Usury. In part, this innocence of money matters is due to Islam's ancient strictures against usury. Although these prohibitions have not interfered with the prosperity of Lebanese bankers or Arab oil sheiks, many Moslems still feel duty-bound to refuse interest payments; they reject the idea of borrowing money and refrain from other business practices that might violate the precepts of the Koran. At the heart of such caution is a conviction that one of a Moslem's basic duties in life is not to compete with his fellow man but to prepare for his entry...
Another example is Negro eating habits. Unlike white Americans, who tend to dine with their families at certain ritual hours, many blacks eat whenever they feel like it, taking food from pots and dishes that always seem to be simmering on the kitchen stove. In Africa, tribesmen still leave food on a fire in the middle of the village for everyone to sample. Another Afro-American characteristic is the habit of eye rolling. Typically, blacks roll their eyes upward when they are daydreaming; preoccupied whites gaze vacantly into space...
...when questioned? How many teachers have thought students were 'tuned out' because they gave no visible sign they were listening? How many have said, in angry tones, 'Johnny! When I talk, you listen! Is that clear?' What is the child to do? Sometimes blacks feel they are supposed to do something, but just what isn't clear-shuffle their feet, perhaps. Sometimes blacks find that if you move around a lot and say 'Yassa, boss,' it seems to make some white people less hostile...
...most of the objects in the foreground. A face outlined here, a figure there, and they consider the task completed. It is not. The guru and the singer may be alive; the rest are actors sitting for sketches with only the vaguest dimension or purpose. Moreover, lines like "I feel so trapped. No one here understands me" tend to mock the film's painfully straight face...
...girl who was attacked--who asked to remain unidentified--said, "I feel very strongly that a warning should be issued to girls in the Square radius." She added that "the large number of similar incidents makes extreme precautions necessary...