Word: traps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...scourge of Puritanism that has deadened the senses of the rest of the country. Griffin tries to explain how it is to live in a ghetto--that Negro parents are as anxious about their children as white parents, or more so; but that Negroes are caught in a vicious trap where no act is private, and where the only escape is violent pleasure. But the driver remains unconvinced. He cannot be persuaded that his passenger could in any way resemble himself. Apparently to make the most of this rare opportunity to talk with an understanding Negro, he asks Griffin...
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...