Word: jim
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...results. I wouldn’t say censorship is categorically one hundred percent to be prohibited, but it is to be applied with extreme care.” Jocelyn Chadwick, a former assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of “The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn,” said yesterday that books should never fall under such censorship. “To censor is to shut down a child’s mind,” she said in a telephone interview yesterday. Chadwick, who has worked with schools...
...staff was anxious to whisk him away (Cabinet appointments were being made that week and there were key departments yet to fill). Yet he lingered and continued to ask questions. At one point, he turned to me and said, with what I could only read as complete sincerity, "Jim, I don't understand poor people. I've never lived with poor people or been around poor people much. I don't understand what they think and feel about a lot of things. I'm just a white Republican guy who doesn...
Online reaction to Handler’s victory was largely negative, said Jim Schachter, the deputy editor of the magazine...
...case of Obama, this distinction is further complicated by his background as half-Kenyan and half-white. As Lee pointed out, “he is not the inheritor of slavery, Jim Crow, and civil rights struggles,” and thus, for certain black voters, “there is an ‘easy for you to say’ attitude” toward Obama’s belief in national reconciliation...
...tended to be exuberant, physical and generally more theologically adventurous than its evangelical cousins. And despite thousands of pastors and churches that pursue their joyous vision without taint, scandal has dogged some of its most prominent figures. Among the best-known were the late 1980s downfalls of televangelists Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart: Bakker, who was undone by charges of fraud, and Swaggart who was caught with a prostitute, had preached a "theology of prosperity" suggesting that there would be divine rewards in this world for those who donated to the ministry...