Word: hating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Father Feeney needed no help. He had begun to preach a doctrine of hate that encompassed everyone who did not believe as he did. He organized a core of faithful that followed and protected and fought for him. He had gained no little power...
...Jews know that all the Protestants hate them. Everyone knows that. But right now there is a sort of alliance with the Jews and the Protestants, ganging up on the Roman Catholics here in Boston. And the Greek Orthodox (latest group to be vilified by Feeney) are helping...
...polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater, room for sport (Gene Tunney learned to box in the Greenwich House basement). A gay, grandmotherly type, Mrs. Sim once said: "I hate to be pictured as a lovely woman doing good. I'm really pretty realistic...
About 15% of the children think "I say the wrong thing at the wrong time," but only 2% are out & out misanthropes ("I don't like people"). As for school, 20% don't like it and 12% hate spelling in particular; but 25% wish they knew how to read better. One out of three thinks he bites his fingernails too much, and four out of ten wish they knew what they are going to be when they grow...
Judging Brutus. In his tilt with the absolutists, Forster employs one absolute of his own: moral courage. "I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Such a choice may scandalize the modern reader ... It would not have shocked Dante, though. Dante places Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesar rather than their country Rome . . . Love and loyalty to an individual can run counter...