Word: punished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal, healthy little WASP who hums happily about her village. But in just a few weeks of slavery she develops most of the characteristics commonly adduced to denigrate U.S. Negroes. Treated as an inferior, she acquires a painful inferiority complex. She loathes herself for being white, and to punish herself she consorts with the filthiest white trash she can find. But even more than she loathes herself she hates the yellows, and to punish them she lies, cheats and steals...
...NCAA Council, the association's policy-making body, approved last night an amendment that would punish colleges whose track teams participated in meets sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Union...
...time, it was not thought that NCAA would itself punish colleges which violated the memorandum, but would leave enforcement to the USTFF...
Jones's plays belong to a relatively new dramatic genre that has been called the theater of cruelty. The theater of cruelty aims to punish an audience, flog it, and maybe even make it sick at its stomach. But which audience? Jones seems like a man who needs an enemy so badly that the nearest friend will do. His true target in these plays is the well-intentioned liberal intellectual with namby-pamby notions of cozy, overnight, instant brotherhood. The Toilet's depiction of Negroes as semi-cretinous urban cannibals is calculated to affront precisely those white racial...
...become even more of a martyr than the heroes of the Alamo. He is Major Claude Eatherly, who, according to ban-the-bomb legend, led the atomic raid on Hiroshima, repented what he had done and, racked by guilt, turned to a life of petty crime to punish himself. Between times, he discoursed on the total sin of the atom bomb. Wrote Edmund Wilson: "He seems to have been unique among bombers in having paused to take account of his responsibility and in attempting to do something to expiate it." Echoed Bertrand Russell: "The steps he took to awaken...