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...note to Washington inviting him to the White House to discuss suitable candidates for patronage appointments in the South. On Oct. 16, 1901, Washington dined with the President, Roosevelt's wife Edith and a family friend, then left town on a midnight train. No sooner did news of the meal became public than the firestorm began. Accused of promoting "social equality," which some feared would encourage intermarriage of white women and black men, Roosevelt was widely villainized. In particular, the thought of race mixing at the highest levels made white Southerners apoplectic. Newspaper headlines roared Roosevelt Dines A Darkey...
...runs" by rote from the local priest, or Driver. They speak in Mokni, a transliterated mix of cockney, mobile text speak and the misunderstood vocabulary of cabbie Dave. Thus, they greet one another with "Ware2, guv," the night sky becomes the "dashboard," unmarried women are "opares" and every hot meal is a "curry." Peaceful normality reigns until one islander by the name of Symun starts preaching his doubts about the sacred texts. Far to the north, where a new London is rising, church leaders have an instrument of torture, shaped like a steering wheel, upon which to break heretics...
Arguing over intellectual issues was simply a way of life. Hall lived in Eliot House, which was “fairly arty” then, he says. He remembers a typical meal in the Eliot dining hall. He set down his tray at a table of musicians with the words, “Music is immoral,” and the debate began...
...Eliot again. Another time, Vladimir Nabokov came for a meal...
...Chinese people have taken him at his word. Luoyang, though a far cry from the sparkling metropolises of Shanghai and Hong Kong, is hardly austere. Ladies in posh dresses and heels browse marbled department stores. McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken are expensive eats here, serving meals that might cost up to three or four U.S. dollars. And the prices for luxury items rival those of American stores. But for all its commercialism, it’s hard to believe that the minimum wage is in Luoyang is about 300 yuan per month, equivalent to about $37. It?...