Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something new been added to race-track parlance? . . . Twenty years ago every trainer on the continent used "Bill Daly." It was supposed to stem from a "bullring" jockey whose technique was to "get the hell away and get the hell home...
After observing the glaciers and attempting to record their speed, the expedition, under the flag of the Chicago Geographical Society, will head southward in a race to clear Baffin Bay before icefields form...
This was a bizarrely distorted montage of the facts. Hollywood handles trade unions with kid gloves, if at all, has scarcely mentioned Communism since the screamingly pro-Russian Mission to Moscow. Even more obviously false was Zhukov's statement that "the stink of race prejudice is smelled miles away. . . . While 100% Americans are always brave and noble heroes, Negroes are either imbeciles . . . or wild beasts inspiring the hatred of the audience. . . ." Actually, Hollywood (though it is inclined to show Negroes as rather simple) has not presented a violently villainous Negro since The Birth of a Nation...
...essence, it is a cut-&-slash pamphlet, packed to the boards with ferocity, diatribe and disgust. Kingsblood Royal is not another onslaught on the old established fact of Southern discrimination; it is a blow at the smug white of the Northern cities-at the man who merely dabbled in race prejudice until the industrial needs of World War II caused thousands of migrant Negro workmen to blacken his lily-white doorstep...
...stage and the "Babbitts" of the white community on the other. Author Lewis' Negroes are not idealized-in fact some of them are shoddy and worthless characters-but most readers are likely to agree with Neil that they, as Lewis presents them, are more valuable to the human race than Lewis' contemptuous whites...