Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN-Carey McWilliams-Little, Brown...
This neglect, with its harmful effects upon both American character and prestige, is the theme of Brothers Under the Skin. Author Carey McWilliams is a former California Commissioner of Immigration & Housing. His description of the U.S. treatment of minorities is blunt; so are his suggested solutions. His ideas stem from years of preoccupation with the history of minority peoples, professional familiarity with Negro homes and segregated quarters, and a long career of opposition to those who see colored poverty and degradation as inevitable. McWilliams' earlier books on labor and agriculture (Ill Fares the Land, Factories in the Field) brought...
Misplaced good intentions may result in irreparable damage. The crew of an "internationally known ship" sunk in European waters were rescued by fishermen. The sympathetic rescuers massaged swollen feet briskly (breaking the weakened, almost-dead skin) and applied hot-water bottles (causing excruciating pain). Almost all the survivors had to have their feet amputated...
Playwright Thornton Wilder, for The Skin of Our Teeth...
Plenty Bandicoot. Nawnim became Norman, was sent to be educated in the caste-free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when they saw him, "Oozit . . . Mygawdaineeflash ! " Abysmally unprepared for the Jim Crow strait jacket of Capricornia, he got an idea of his status from the white insults and the black friendliness...