Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about black laughter, black eating habits, aversion of eyes and more than anything else teaching ghetto students in incorrect language so they will "understand." Every individual I have seen in my life has his own unique laugh that has nothing to do with cultural background. There is no such thing as black eating habits. Eating habits of any particular family depend on occupation. Field workers who work sunup to sundown would keep a pot simmering on the stove so that they could dash in and grab a bite and dash back out to work again. But it is definitely...
Talking loudly has not got one thing to do with being black. People talk loudly because they want attention, and almost all children go through a loud-talking stage. Any large group together in public tends to talk loudly. Eye aversion is not a black trait either. The Cultural Mafia certainly must not have talked to any young black militants because they will definitely give you an eye for an eye -no pun intended. Eye rolling is too ridiculous to comment...
...Whoever they are, the new men will probably be more conservative than either Fortas or Warren, who were in close agreement on most issues. Still, conservative critics who expect a turnabout in decisions are almost certain to be disappointed. For one thing, the major decisions of the Warren Court are largely irreversible, already part of the social fabric. For another, the court almost always changes at a pace that can only be called glacial. Innovations usually proceed decision by decision, year by year...
About the only thing on which Patil and Menon agree is that the Congress Party is fatally sick and will most likely come apart in the national elections scheduled for 1972. Patil sees himself as a "ladder" between the Congress Party and such rightist groupings as the Swatantra and the Jana Sangh. He also hopes to make fruitful contact with the Praja Socialists, who broke away from the Congress Party but have never joined the leftist front because they hate Communists as much as Patil does...
...unfashionable marriage was one thing, but giving up his uniqueness for all time was quite another. The Prince, however, remained with the girl since his Charter Flight didn't return for months. Although the Prince knew he wasn't really living because he wasn't doing anything, he was, for the first time, very happy. In September, realizing that Italy was indeed the one thing he had ever done, the Prince assented to the girl's conditions...