Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of liberal good will on the part of whites. Although a white often self-consciously displays his lack of prejudice by dancing with blacks, he sometimes unwittingly reveals a hidden attitude by praising his partner's sense of rhythm. "Blacks got rhythm." That kind of remark infuriates Negroes. "It's a phrase that makes me want to turn and stalk out of the room," says a Boston girl. "I know as many lousy black dancers as white ones." Well-meaning whites cause other problems in social gatherings. "I work in an office where...
...refusing to commit Cambodia to either the Communist or anti-Communist camps, Sihanouk has long antagonized cold warriors on both sides. One day he may remark that "Communism is inevitable in Asia. When? Oh, not tomorrow. The Chinese don't think in years, not even in lustrums. They have time with them." The next day he may complain that Chinese children in Cambodia's schools "bring in Mao Tse-tung's books and carry out all types of subversive activities...
...though, is Harry Gould, who portrays the guileful, geriatric district attorney. Wearing a rumpled suit and a feral gleam, he baits witnesses with soft-voiced ruthlessness and brazenly plays on the jury's sympathies. His well-modulated performance demonstrates a principle that jurists and film makers alike should remark: solid courtroom drama ought to be that and nothing more...
...shadings were enough to muddle a stenotypist's ear, and in fact did just that. Dr. Walter Heller's remark at one point that "consumer satiety rears its ugly head" was transcribed as "consumer satanity." Dr. Heller was subsequently asked to define this interesting new economic concept. "The tendency of the consumer to be perverse-he sometimes thwarts us by refusing to react to certain things in the way we want him to," Heller quickly replied. Still, Heller maintains, there is basically no such thing as consumer satiation...
...Defensive, because business, the great innovator in all else, is popularly conceived of as opposing political innovation. Suspicious, because its distrust of politicians is exceeded only by its contempt for them. False, because a tory businessman is as unnatural as a liberal Dalai Lama. You often hear that silly remark that the least government is the best government-silly because, like the concept of anarchy, it is Utopian. It will come true in heaven, in which time and place it will be equally true that the best business is no business...