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...effort to better himself and the race, Waters humiliated and scorned those Blacks who did not agree with his view that the race could not move forward until it emulated the whites in every respect. Uttering lines like, "Now I've got you--one less fool for the race to be ashamed of," and "You know how much damage one ignorant Negro can do...and when we slit his throat, he asked as what we had done wrong," Waters becomes a racist as dangerous and as blatant as any Klansman...
...Love of Mine. They gaze into each other's eyes. Tenderness seems to rise in a cloud from Margaret's keyboard. A wild, passionate embrace, something along the lines of the Tabu perfume ad, seems inevitable. "This is the only place you can come and make a fool of yourself in front of your friends," says Terry. "Of course, we've been married 31 years, and people who've been married that long don't have many friends...
Dallas does not like losers, poor-mouthers, pessimists. Dallas does not fool much with the banking term negative net worth. Negative net worth, meaning, of course, you owe more than you got, is a term that dogs cotton farmers. "Fellow came by here the other day," a farm-supply dealer outside Lubbock once explained, "and told me that if he could just get back up to broke, he'd quit. Trouble is, he has to get back up to broke first...
...Thompson never jokes about the decathlon. He is his own coach and does not have a fool for a pupil. He claims that he revels in the rigors of the training; competition is dessert. "I sound rather eccentric, don't I?" he asks rhetorically. "No, when you're rich you're eccentric, when you're poor you're mad. So I'm mad." Thompson grew up poor and angry. He is the son of a Nigerian British immigrant who died when Daley was twelve and a Scottish mother who sent him at age seven...
Chebrikov: Well that clumsy fool took the bait, and he started an anti-Bok campaign, blasting the president for allowing, nay, even rejoicing in the fact that this man Womack was on the Harvard faculty. Buckley took that liberal goo-goo and his fuddy-duddy academic freedom to task, but as he is so accustomed to do he went...