Word: trappings
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Quickly he learns about the conspiratorial friendship and courtesy which seems to exist between Negroes, taught in the same trap; conversely, he discovers the race hatred and race compromise which so often prevent Negroes from unifying for advancement. He learns of the squalid noisiness of the Negro ghetto, where sex, booze, and gluttony are the sole means of forgetting the lifelong barrier that seals them off from real humanity; of the tiny injustices imposed by the white world (Griffin is forever having to walk long blocks just to urinate); and of the bigger injustices that are perpetually evident...
Falsely, Claggart accuses the sailor of plotting mutiny. Vere knows that Claggart is lying and, seeing a chance to trap him, he sends for Billy Budd to deny the charge. Billy, facing Claggart in Vere's cabin, struggles to speak, but can only make the terrible sounds of stammering. Suddenly, he gives action to his horror with a lunging, double-fisted blow that sends Claggart to the deck, dead with a broken skull...
...Walker fell into a left-wing trap in Mississippi," Welch declared," and false and vicious press reporting distorted the incident...
...sell paintings 'by' anyone," said Yotnakparian blandly. "We sold the paintings as 'attributed to.' " A lawyer for Hartert described him as "one of the few art dealers who have no pretensions. He guarantees nothing.'' Chrysler himself apparently fell into the trap by a dogmatic but sometimes erroneous faith in his own taste and judgment...
...addition to the priests, TV's new professional men include a lawyer and a clutch of newsmen. The tough, quick-thinking, steel-trap lawyer is NBC's Sam Benedict, played by Edmond O'Brien with sheer nervous drive, solving ten cases an hour, picking up phones, barking, slamming them down, dictating letters at 200 words a minute, grabbing punks by the throat, and so on. Statistically, a man like that ought to have a nervous breakdown at least once a week...