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...Durants are not original historians in the sense of having a particular slant on history, except for a broad humanistic sympathy. They do not view events through the prism of philosophy or economics or ideology. Their method is sometimes closer to journalism than to formal academic history. Yet in recent years the academic attacks on the Durants have diminished-perhaps partly because in the U.S. the writing of history in general has begun to free itself from the 19th century Germanic mold, in which color was suspect and wit was heresy...
...least workable, all the more so because the physical disparities in man are not limited to the color of his skin. The so-called Mongolian race, for example, can also be distinguished by the epicanthic fold that gives some Asian peoples, among them the Japanese and the Chinese, a slant-eyed look. Evolutionary hypothesis has traced this feature to its probable source. The predominant theory is that it developed from a mutation-a random change in the elaborate chemistry of human chromosomes, which govern man's biological evolution. For arctic and desert-dwelling people, subjected to blinding blizzards...
Anti-Israeli propaganda with a distinctly anti-Semitic slant was printed for circulation among the armed forces. The pamphlets were so distasteful that the air-defense chief, his deputy for political affairs and the air-defense chief of staff-none of them Jewish-flatly refused to allow distribution of the taint ed propaganda. The generals were not likely to have risked their careers without the knowledge that their attitude had widespread support, but three weeks ago, Gomulka angrily fired all three...
...wish to register a strong protest against the slant of your story. Your portrayal of the riot as baseless and unreasoned shows a lack of understanding of the problems the Negro community faces. The moral responsibility that is yours in working toward solution of these problems is great. The kind of slant you gave is no help in finding an answer...
They run you through courses--infiltration, obstacle courses--and they give you live ammunition to shoot. These courses have little pop-up targets on them, some of them have little Chinese faces which say "Joe Chink" at the bottom with little slant eyes and things. At first most of the guys are amused. It's funny to see a little target like that popping up in front of you and then you're shooting at it. It's funny, you know, but then at night when you think about it, maybe it's not so funny...