Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dear," said the anthropology professors at London University to Eslanda Robeson, leftist wife of Singer Paul Robeson. She had insisted that she possessed inborn understanding of the primitive mind. "You can't possibly know the primitive mind," they said. "You see, you are European." "What d'you mean I'm European?" snapped Eslanda; "I'm Negro . , . I'm African . . . I'm what you call primitive." "You're not primitive, my dear," said the dons, "you're educated and cultured, like us." Indignant, Eslanda decided to visit Africa...
That a problem does exist is undeniable. To demand complete elimination of racial segregation in the face of inborn prejudice would be a cloudy proposal at best. But the present plan can hardly be justified as clear-headed reality. There is nothing realistic in the policy of stationing Negro soldiers in the ultra-prejudiced South, where they are excluded from many towns and proper recreation. There is nothing realistic in the policy of arming Negro MP's only with billy clubs, and then assigning white MP's with guns to patrol colored districs. There is nothing realistic in the policy...
Father Sheehy said his own Irish blood "clamored for vengeance against England," but that, despite the pull of his "inborn prejudices," he had concluded that England's cause is the cause of freedom, of the United States and of Christianity. Tired of talk, of the vexation of spirit produced by mere babble, Father Sheehy left for Jacksonville, Fla. to join the Navy as a chaplain...
...Chambrun, a captain of French infantry, is a wiry little man of 33, with the late Nick Longworth for an uncle, a profitable knowledge of the law, both French and American, a host of important connections, a taste for driving too fast in an automobile and an inborn capacity for landing out of any catastrophe on his feet. With all these qualifications, he was unable to do his job for France. Ten days after he arrived in the U. S., at the moment when he was pleading his country's case at a luncheon of the Senate Foreign Affairs...
...contrast to the graceful organ style of Handel, is that of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose organ music is more of a religious nature. He seems to think of the organ as a sacred instrument. The music he composes for it is inborn. While Handel0 adapted to the organ many ideas which he used in other forms of music, making it easier for the listener to understand, Bach treated the organ as an instrument whose great resources offered new ideas for music...