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...replied: "I would like to reinforce your custom." He thereupon ordered the turbans nailed to the Turks' heads. Vlad once gathered a "multitude" of sick and poor citizens in a castle, then bolted the doors and burned them alive so "there should be no more poor in my realm, leaving only the rich...
...stereotypes has an effect on society. Ralph Ellison has said "it conditions the reader to accept the less worthy values of society. It is," to follow Ellison, "in the realm of the irrational... that the stereotype grows... The Negro stereotyped is really an image of the unorganized, irrational forces of American life, forces through which, by projecting them in forms of images of an easily dominated minority, the white individual seeks to be at home in the vast unknown world of America. Perhaps," Ellison concludes, "the object of the stereotypes is not so much to crush the Negro...
...past several months Columbia University, represented by its President, has been negotiating with Henry Kissinger '50 the possibility of his appointment to a chair in the Department of Political Science. Since the appointment has moved recently from the realm of secrecy and rumor to the relative daylight (the light of openness at Columbia is pretty dim), opposition in the university community has taken firm root and grown...
...summit will take place in quarters fit for kings. Prime Minister James Callaghan refurbished the second-floor dining room at 10 Downing Street at a cost of $73,000. Air conditioning was installed and six temporary translation booths set up. The men will negotiate in a realm of gold-gold carpet, gold brocade draperies, gold-framed portraits of Lord Nelson and William Pitt gazing imperiously down on more circumscribed statesmen...
...makes some starts in the right direction. He has a dotty King known as Bruno the Questionable. A monster terrifying Bruno's realm is reported to be so horrible that he is capable of turning a man's teeth white overnight. And the story of a cooper's young apprentice, filled with enthusiasm for modern ways, who finds the medieval city no more interested in him than his native village, is serviceable enough?especially as Python Michael Palin plays...