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...notion that women should not always be seen, let alone heard. Shortly after her husband's election, Margaret told interviewers that she favored wages for housewives, was not opposed to couples living together outside marriage, and thought marijuana might as well be legalized if it is indeed medically harmless...
...fact that he was piloting a totally harmless, comparatively slow-moving commercial airliner seems not to have entered the minds of the Israeli airmen...
White students bewildered by the racial separatism usually frame their questions in the wrong way. They wonder why the blacks seem troubled, why they feel the need for this usually harmless but just as cutting separation. Underlying these questions, which are typically expressed in hushed whispers by whites after skirting an all-black dining table, is the assumption that black students are at fault, that they are either afraid of contact with whites, or worse, that the blacks are racists in reverse. Separatist black behavior is seen as somehow aberrant, as a puzzling deviation from a harmonious norm...
...Nick. Murray loves kids, and kids love him, presumably because he has a kid's-eye-view of conformity and hypocrisy in adults. When the nasty, unfeeling social workers try to separate him from his twelve-year-old prodigy you have a play. Murray lives out one long and harmless fantasy of spontaneity and irreverence--everybody's fantasy of telling the straights where to go. None of the other characters in the drama can try to "straighten him out" (and in a certain way he needs it) without envying him and somehow loving...
Father was a Sicilian from Palermo who had come to London 20 years ago. He was still loyal to his native country, passionately defending its dignity against all challengers. Franco thought him amusingly oldfashioned, but on the whole harmless. He simply belonged to a different era. Patriotism meant nothing to the young people of today. There had been an attempt, some years earlier, to popularize a European an them and a European flag but neither had been taken seriously. People moved freely across national frontiers, there was a common European currency and members of the European Parliament were elected...