Word: nessness
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...Untouchables' Bob Stack (Eliot Ness) attributes her success to the fact that as an actress "she knows when some thing would feel uncomfortable on a performer." She is also famed for her "glue," her ability to link scenes smoothly, as when the distorted image of a gangster in a funhouse mirror gives way in an eyeblink to a beautiful girl looking in a mirror at a new fur wrap. She rules more by sex appeal than by fiat. "Can we try it this way, darling," she will murmur, "or would you hate me for that, sweetheart...
...girl--there and on the South Side and in Roxbury. The "liberal" white man worries, abstractly, about certain phrases. He worries about "equality of education, of housing." He worries about desegregation in some far off place. All this sounds good. But I wish he would wonder what "Negro-ness" is like in the system. My own experience with "life" has made me real sensitive to him. If I don't trust him, personally, like a buddy any offense strikes me as a racial slight. When he pushes me aside to get a seat on the train, I think he pushes...
...stop there? Why not produce an historical dramatization with a similar format? Then we could all hear John Wilkes Booth talk on Lincoln, Adolf Hitler talk on Churchill, and Al Capone talk on Ness...
...going to help," said Attorney General Robert Kennedy, 36, of brother Teddy's run for a Massachusetts senate nomination. But lest his 30-year-old little brother count too much on family connections, Bobby managed to raise the homely political platitude to new frontiers of obvious ness: "If he doesn't have the stuff him self, if he won't go out and work, if he doesn't know the issues, if he doesn't know what he's talking about, if he makes a fool of himself, if he can't answer...
...correspond to "reality," but this is an act of faith, for no "proof" can be adduced for or against it. Scientific beliefs can conflict with religious beliefs, but the large number of modified or even discarded scientific theories should serve as a useful warning relating to Dr. Van Ness's pronouncement. We should be very careful about junking our deep, personal religious committals because of certain presently held schemes that we are attempting to apply to the natural world, however useful they may be at the moment...