Word: pronoun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgiven if this court makes use of the personal pronoun for the first time in a written opinion. I love the people of Alabama. I know that many of both races are troubled and, like Jonah of old, are 'angry even unto death' as the result of distortion of affairs within this state, practiced in the name of sensationalism...
...whole package of in-group chatter concludes with a provocative (that word, generally a euphemism, applies in this case) request that "we" (a pronoun Mr. Kofsky uses very offensively) ought to like Ray Charles more than Sonny Terry, because he's more authentic. His two points, that white intellectuals have created for themselves a dreamy and gratifying image of the nonviolent Negro, and have foolishly rejected the beat protest, are made arrogantly. His snottiness would indeed be unbearable if one couldn't detect an undercurrect of self-disgust in Kofsky himself...
Adams crusaded against illegible house numbers, hatcheck girls, paper towels, his wife's salad dressing, and dry-sweeping with a broom (he felt that the dust raised was dangerously germy). "Whom are you?" demanded "The Conning Tower" testily of any author caught misusing the pronoun...