Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops looked the other way. This sight, perhaps more than any other, contributes to the belief that Negroes are basically indolent and immoral, that law enforcement in the U.S. has broken down, that the black man is getting preferential treatment. That conclusion is directly contrary to the hallowed Anglo-Saxon tradition of property rights. The fact that mass arrests are not always feasible in chaotic conditions is ignored. The fact that indiscriminate shooting in a few of the riots, particularly Newark and Detroit, killed innocent citizens is forgotten, and the fact that police gunfire can prolong and worsen the initial...
Some of my best friends are the sons of liberal white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, though they haven't learned their lessons as well as we have. If Dean Watson is looking for radicals, he should look to them, for they still think it is safe to speak one's conscience in this country. Watson must only hope they will finally learn the true lesson of the American Experience under the Nixon-Humphrey-Wallace administration. Nicholas C. Arguimbau...
...HATCHETMAN: A literal derivation from the military vocabulary of coIonial America, when a hatchetman, or axman. chopped foliage in advance of troops operating in woods or swamp. On the political ladder, a henchman (etymologically, the Anglo-Saxon hengest-man, or horse groom) is one rung above a hanger-on but one rung below a hatchetman...
...from one tip of the country to the other in just a matter of hours, communication connections in seconds, shanty log cabins having grown into giant skyscrapers, and intelligence and education at an all time high, Blacks and Whites have not yet learned to live together. The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant power structure has made an all out effort to impede the upward mobility and social assimilation of Black Americans. But despite this continued unjust act, some Blacks have pushed their way toward the top. The going has been all uphill but there have been occasional peeps at how life...
...rest of the play. This is not a fault--it is just another style of writing plays, one that is circuitous and whimsical, full of zany cynical asides for their own sake. Anouilh has a European mind and Chapman's attempt to fit it into the straight-forward Anglo-Saxon mold is disastrous...