Word: hating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbors came around to throw taunts and rocks, to riot and run rampage. The Howards are Negroes, the first to move into the Trumbull Park public housing project on Chicago's South Side. Ten other Negro families moved in later, but the Howards bore the brunt of racial hate...
Police hoped for an end to the Trumbull Park riots, the most sustained in Chicago's history. Howard hoped that his retreat would make life easier for the other Negro families, but in the tense South Side, hate is not easily appeased. Recently, a teenage gang stoned two Trumbull Park Negro women, both pregnant, as they walked home from a grocery store. Chicago expected trouble in the sultry summer nights ahead...
...mysterious pain of body and soul, he struggles helplessly with his practical responsibilities. The children of the village laugh at him, prank him ruthlessly. When he innocently tries to give spiritual advice to the worldly lord of the manor, that glacial aristocrat calls him crazy. Soon everyone seems to hate him. The middle-aged priest of the next parish explains why: "Your simplicity . . . burns them...
...Hate Communism, But . . ." Nothing in the diaries so far shows that Ickes was a great man. They help bear out his reputation for personal honesty, his enormous capacity for work, his dogged loyalty to old-fashioned leftish principles. He was candid enough to say of other New Deal liberals in general: "There personally was more comfort in going along with a bunch of reactionaries who knew where they were and where they were going than in trying to get along with a bunch of prima donnas...
...naive enough to say as late as 1939: "I hate Communism, but it is founded on belief in the control of Government, including the economic system, by the people themselves. It is the very antithesis of Nazism." Many a liberal "prima donna" thought the same. Ickes, who died in 1952, lived long enough to learn otherwise...