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...Milners' study, only two pimps were white, but they dressed, talked and acted exactly like their black colleagues. In fact, says Christina, "the success of the white pimps hinges on their ability to mimic the blacks." For ghetto Negroes, the choice of pimping as a career has a certain logic. Sociologists have long noted that because black men have traditionally had trouble finding legitimate jobs, they are used to the idea of being supported by women. Besides, in the black community there is no loss of status in making money from sex. Quite the contrary. Pimping...
...legendary figure in British wildlife circles. He is called Kenzie the Wild-Goose Man. He is also the Owl Man, the Weasel Man, the Finch Man−a caller of the wild who can lure a hare from its hole or a baby seal onto the beach. Thorpe can mimic 88 different bird calls, ranging from the swallow's high titter to the low cluck of the red-legged partridge and the sexy whistle of the gray plover...
...psychology before he took the Ph.D. That might have prevented his dismissing as trivial every moving force in the expanding human makeup outside of genetic predetermination and breeding practices. It's possible he might have stumbled upon some indication of the human being's capacity to mimic and incorporate, often termed "learned behavior." Evidence pointing to the importance of what is learned after we are dropped, chromosomes and all, on this earth represents too great a body of truth just to be swept under the rug by some Rutgers social anthro man. I mean, my woman...
...those white students who seem determined not to adjust to the new situation. Parents in Mississippi's Washington County have sent their children into class with portable tape recorders to gather evidence against black teachers they consider incompetent. White students in Greer, a suburb of Greenville, S.C., openly mimic the accent of a black English teacher...
...power to grant formal degrees. So two years ago Mrs. Cohen petitioned the New York State Board of Regents for a charter permitting her school to issue the same Associate in Arts degree available at the state's community colleges. "Everybody is so busy trying to mimic Harvard," she contended, "that they have forgotten the problems in their own backyards. What we are trying to create is a means of harnessing education to the needs of the community, much as the land-grant schools did for the farmer...