Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed throughout the book Mr. Sergel suffers from the racial diseases of all the modern realists. He is determined to hear no good, see no good, speak no good. He recognizes no sense of happiness, no joy of living, save of an artificial and transient sort. Even his love between men and women never rises above the flesh. He measures the sensations of the lower middle class on the scale of his own--as he would have us believe--hyper-sensitive palate and nostril. In his eyes they know no beauty whatsoever, and no pleasure but that which he takes...
...Klan, on the other hand advocates racial prejudice and religious discrimation. I am against any secret on ganisations in politics and I am opposed such discrimination in, as I have said, contrary to the Constitution to be torn down to one place it will not be long before the entire fabric will crumble away...
...streams of population that have been and are pouring in upon us are age old in racial character and capacity. We are the melting pot. Into it has been poured, almost promiscuously, every dross ingredient of citizenship that the earth produces, the good...
Catholicity, which has always been Mr. Monteux's most characteristic virtue, was his again in yesterday's concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall. Both extremes and the mean in racial heritage were represented on the program: Sibelius for the gray northerners, Respighi for the warm exuberant Latins, Bridge, for neutrality incarnate. On it was nothing from his own native France; yet he fared more than well with the two which fell to his lot, Mr. Bridge conducting his own suite...
...mere fact that the Klan should exist is cause for surprise. That college men, especially Harvard College men, supposedly rational and tolerant, should accept the doctrines of the Klan, founded as they are on blind prejudice and fierce racial bitterness, is extraordinary. It is but little excuse, however much it may serve to explain the situation, that the romantic and mysterious glamor of hooded figures of the inborn American craving to belong to something are probably the real attraction...