Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What these men have in common is a seemingly contradictory pair of characteristics: 1) advocacy of better treatment for Negroes and 2) the confidence and respect of a considerable number of their white neighbors, including many men and women who are not liberal at all. Each of these characteristics is necessary for the definition of a Southern liberal. But just how democratic are these Southern liberals? Granted they have openly criticized the South's callous treatment of the Negro, the fact remains that their efforts in behalf of the Negro have been limited by the separate but equal doctrine...
...What discipline!" says Charles-Hubert (papa) when he sees a Wehrmacht brass band. "After all, they're human beings too," says Julie (mama). Julie, who met Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels...
...boss of the yard. He had his own mob of hoodlums, snarling youngsters who hated the sight of uniformed cops, who could spot a plainclothes dick in a subway crush, who knew how to steal "anything begun with an A. A piece of fruit. A watch. A pair of shoes. A bicycle. Anything...
...with two moles, one with a facial tic. The rest tell him their names, point to the tools they want him to pass. In one parlor game, J.S. excels. When the husbands sit under the table and try to identify their wives by their feet, he simply tickles each pair of feet until he recognizes his wife-by her laugh...
...natural history, the book shows astonishingly small powers of observation of even familiar barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair wishes to have a young one, they first eat of the mandrake (representing Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge), and that whales will let sailors settle on their backs, but dive from under them if they light campfires...