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Like many another schoolboy outcast, flop-footed, inky-fingered "Bop" La Farge plugged his dogged way out of pariahdom. In his third year he tackled another bully, finished him off with an astonished "30 seconds of deliriously swinging one haymaker after another." In the Fourth Form he was a star high-jumper despite heckling classmates who chanted "Bop-Bop-Bop" at the side of the jumping pit. By graduation he had attained respectability with the kudos of a letterman in both football and crew...
...Patriotic, Avoid Friction." To some, the final insult to Negro pride is the appearance of the European refugee, who is free to vote, eat where he wishes, and attain full citizenship, while the native-born Negro, often of old U.S. stock, must remain a semi outcast...
...outcast. ... Go now all of you to Rhodes and seek his protection. He will be your chief and your friend." The king turned to Magwegwe, the next in rank, and said: "Do you remember your words?" And Magwegwe answered: "Yes, King. When you die, so shall I die." Lobengula took a small bottle and drank. Magwegwe did likewise. They both died that...
...made sense. In 1929, the high noon of France's hegemony on the continent, the great Aristide Briand sent a memorandum to all European governments proposing steps toward a European federation. From 26 nations came approval - in principle. Though Britain was officially cool, Winston Churchill, then a political outcast, wrote: "Why should Europe fear unity? As well might a man fear his own body." Edouard Herriot, Briand's bulldog, wrote a book called The United States of Europe (1930). But before the movement could get anywhere, Depression and Hitler intervened...
Shapiro's comments on the American scene are remarkably fresh and versatile, touch on such matters of general interest as haircuts, Buick cars, street accidents, the Washington Cathedral, army camps, the housefly, Hollywood. Shapiro describes American democracy with the satirical gusto of an outcast who feels he is in the know about what it is really like...