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JOSEPH RHODES, Pennsylvania state legislator: My father was black, from Alabama. My mother is Chinese, born in the Philippines. I went to a white elementary school in Pittsburgh where I was called a nigger. I went to a black high school where I was called a Chink. This sense of separation was right there from the beginning. I was born Catholic, but later was brought up as a Jehovah's Witness. That also gave me a sense of separation. You are not supposed to salute the flag, and in fourth grade all the kids beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: GROWING UP DIFFERENT | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...print. It possibly offers even more as an introduction to Beckett's ability to combine heightened abstraction and idiom in a comic synthesis (even in serious criticism). The essay begins: "The danger is in the neatness of identifications. The conception of Philosophy and Philology as a pair of nigger minstrels out of the Teatro dei Piccoli is soothing, like the contemplation of a carefully folded hamsandwich...

Author: By Tom Keffner, | Title: Beckett: Reclaiming the Unusable | 11/3/1976 | See Source »

...just a nigger," said Ali's man, Drew Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Doing It Just One More Time | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...champion's eyes showed merriment. Privately he had given Joe Louis $10,000 to spend two weeks with him at the Concord Hotel. Publicly he refused to notice Louis wince whenever the word "nigger" rang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Doing It Just One More Time | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...Bryan. To do that, to take care of his children and his divorces, to work his private charities, he has calculated that he needs $83,000 a month. That is why he has gone on boxing with eroded skills. That is why, his mind heavy with death, he shouted nigger into the face of a decent man like Kenny Norton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: Doing It Just One More Time | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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