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...impossible for Ken Hughes to offer any vision of Cromwell the private man, since domestic scenes have to be played at less than a shout, and a hoarse whisper is the only alternative to a shout that Harris can come up with. I stress this failing not to slur Harris (indeed, Cromwell by the end of his career was probably hoarse too!): rather, I bring it up as a factor crucial in explaining why the ideological bias of the movie-strongly pro-Cromwell-fails to work convincingly in actual dramatic interchange...
Local racism is also distressing. "Czechs and Rumanians slur the gypsies," said Miss Alpern. "They told us: They are our blacks. We can't do anything about them.' The Hungarians slur the Rumanians, and the Rumanians believe that they are Latins and thus superior to the Slavs. The Poles hate the Germans and the Russians...
Best Advice. Powell's slur drew an angry and immediate riposte from the Labor Party. "If Powell has evidence of traitors in government departments," said Home Secretary James Callaghan, who oversees British internal security, "he has not made any approach to me. If this is more than a smear scare, I must ask him to come to me at once." But Heath, who in 1968 expelled Powell from his Shadow Cabinet because of his racial views, refused to censure Powell for fear of provoking a split in the Tories. Many theorized that Powell, foreseeing a Tory defeat...
...members also voted approval of a march after the meeting to the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street to protest a "racial slur" which appeared in Tuesday's paper...
This [the picture and caption] is an intolerable racist slur on black people, very reminiscent of the lies the "sociologist" Jensen tries to spread about working people in general, and black working people in particular. Spreading such lies and slurs is invaluable to the people who own and run this country, for whom it is a life-and-death matter to keep black and white people from uniting and fighting...