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Americans, of course, have produced their own unflattering images of the Japanese over the years -- from the malevolent figures depicted on World War II posters to more benign, but not necessarily inoffensive, postwar depictions. "If there were yellow dolls in the U.S. with buck teeth, narrow slanted eyes and called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Prejudice and Black Sambo | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Mamelodi is a black township of more than 300,000 on the outskirts of Pretoria. At Smith's request, not only was he about to become its white minister, but also he and his wife Ellen would be its sole white inhabitants. The Afrikaners, among whom Smith had spent his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rev. Nico Smith: White Among Blacks | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

BY focusing on the irresponsibility of the middle class, Lessing is able to comment on the nature of class conflict in Britain. most of the Lovatt children conform to society, but Ben's malevolent presence forces them out of the house to live with relatives. David and Harriet are left...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: There's a Monster in the House | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

If it's so, we're victims precisely because we're newcomers, because we have yet to be dressed-up and made presentable for the professor's polite society. The enemy Kilson wants "fought head-on" is our true, malevolent selves. And it's a reasonable, if debatable, proposition that...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Policing the Academy | 4/20/1988 | See Source »

To most laymen, the explosions of scientific knowledge in the 20th century have been chiefly felt as ominous aftershocks. The splitting of the atom, after all, led to nuclear bombs. The breaking of the genetic code of the DNA molecule raises nightmares about malevolent new designer viruses escaping from laboratories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Cheers for Diversity INFINITE IN ALL DIRECTIONS | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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