Word: referring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faulkner's hands, the uncomprehending drive of Brownlee's owners to "get shut" of him is comically instructive. Indeed, the story resonates certain abiding, indeed tragic themes of American history with which it is interwoven, and which are causing great turbulence in the social atmosphere today. I refer to the exasperation and bemusement of the white American with the black, the black American's ceaseless (and swiftly accelerating) struggle to escape the misconceptions of whites, and the continual confusing of the black American's racial background with his individual culture. Most of all, I refer...
...manning their own border checkpoints. They are the new heroes of Arab youth: nine-year-olds train with real guns and chant a fedayeen cry, "Oh Zionists, do not think you are safe. Drinking blood is a habit of our men." They are the idols of grown Arabs, who refer affectionately to Arafat as "the old man," to Habash as "the doctor," and to the fedayeen generally as "the boys...
...aren't going to like this, but your favorite whipping boys, the Chicago police, now refer to each other as PIG. The term is not used, however, in a derogatory sense since the three letters point up the motto awarded them by a grateful public: Pride, Integrity and Guts...
...country club" and "the campus by the sea," its surfing, suntanned students often seem more concerned with meteorological than political phenomena. Many occupy their own apartments in a two-square-mile enclave at Isla Vista. Their relaxed morals offend the Santa Barbara citizenry and law officers, who refer to Isla Vista as Sin City. For their part, students openly provoke the locals and call the cops dumb squares...
Speaking of the contempt of court citations which he and the other defendants drew for using obscenities at the trial, Dellinger said, "It reflects the cultural bias of the country today that you can't refer in straight, simple language to one of the most desirable and wonderful human functions...