Word: niggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back his cartoons with the faces blacked in, or scrawled: "You are a Negro, aren't you, Mr. Baldy?" Recently, a last-ditch racist type, learning for the first time that Baldy's full name was Baldowski, wrote angrily: "I always wondered why you were such a Nigger lover. Now I know. You're one of those foreigners." As a matter of fact, Moderate Baldy was born in Augusta...
...House of Commons, had the presumption to dine with a black M.P. in Salisbury's topflight Meikle's Hotel, Southern Rhodesians were scandalized at her bringing along a "munt" (from a Bantu word for man, used by Rhodesians as a rough equivalent of the U.S.'s "nigger"). Last week Southern Rhodesia was hard at it again with Labor, this time over a tall, aggressive, 33-year-old M.P. from England named John Thomson Stonehouse...
...Black &White; Sir: Three of my most heartfelt cheers to Britain's Mr. Justice Salmon on his most eloquent speech before sentencing the nine "nigger-hunting" youths to four years each [TIME, Sept. 29]. Let's put some of our punks away for a long while, and make any possible future delinquent think half a dozen times of the benefits of a noncriminal life...
...collected the sawdust from a saloon floor and panned $278 from it in two hours. Dance-hall girls charged the miners $1 for one minute of dancing. and two miners actually had valets in their log huts. Fine dog teams, says Author Berton, were the Cadillacs of the time. "Nigger Jim" had one that was worth $2,500, and his sled had a built-in bar from which he treated his pals...
...chapter on the short novels is not as impressive as the treatment of Lord Jim and Nigger, mostly because it is more one-sided. Guerard sees each of the three short novels as a dramatization of the "night journey," a descent into the unconscious to meet one's dark and criminal double--one's Kurtz or Leggat. Obviously, Conrad did not know enough Jung and Fraser to understand the "dramatization," and the core of the interpretation--and of much of the book--is the assumption that Conrad wrote more than he knew. Guerard explains in a footnote...