Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cases of merit are clear. Our trouble is that as the distinctions blur, so do our judgments, and we use aids of blanket categorization rather than individuality. Until our standard becomes one of the individual as an individual, our problem will remain; and, pessimistically, perhaps the greatest difficulty will lie with the white liberals, who are blind to their own prejudice, that of treating each black person as a Negro. In helping men to be considered as individuals in our society, and to mould the attitudes of that society, the white liberal must simultaneously change his own attitudes. Jonathan Gillman...
...should I lie...
...also has two daughters, giving him a total of seven exemptions on his income tax.) Only five pounds over his college fighting weight. Caplin often lunches on Metrecal at his desk, always bends and stretches through a strenuous course of calisthenics no matter how late he gets home. "I lie in bed and count for him." says Ruth. "It does me a lot of good...
They would have let it lie...
...Secret Court, about the events subsequent to Lincoln's assassination; and most recently, A Dancer in Darkness, a superbly gory retelling of the legend of the Duchess of Amalfi. Usually his books are brief and taut, and he is contemptuous of jumbo novels "for women who lie on sofas all day." But his best book, he feels, is a long novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. It is called Sir William, and will be published in England by Faber & Faber. Stacton's U.S. sales have been meager, and his American publisher has no present plans to issue...