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...nigger." In private he advises the other millhands to stand up to the white man-if need be, to organize a union. He is fired. His father-in-law eventually wangles him a job in a filling station, but a few days later the white vigilantes warn his employer that the station will be wrecked if "that nigger ain't gone-and damn soon." In fury and frustration, the hero roughs up his wife and cuts out for Birmingham. There he finds his father, a malevolent old derelict, and in him sees what he himself will some day surely...
...which investors could take capital gains, the price went higher in stead of lower, forcing short sellers to scramble to cover their losses and sending the stock even higher. Many bro kers, fearing that Comsat could be riding for a fall, got on the telephones last week to warn their customers away...
...Second Movement was founded last spring to oppose U.S. intervention in South Vietnam. According to Maher, however, the group has expanded its activities to include "general peace programs to warn people about possible U.S. intervention" in other parts in the world...
...most of the blame on teacher preparation, which consists mainly of a few undergraduate survey courses in history. About one-third of Indiana's history teachers have not taken a single graduate course in the subject. "A teacher who invades the classroom with such a background," the authors warn, "is akin to a soldier entering battle with a popgun...
...returns to the present and a Bitos, fuddled with drink, being prepared for one last humiliation. A woman who has refused Bitos' offer of marriage pities him enough to warn him to leave the house before the final indignity. Without a word of gratitude, Bitos turns on his heel with graceless implacability ("If I can ever get my own back on you all one day, you are the one I shall begin with"). This is Anouilh at his most psychologically astute, recognizing that a man may endure all sorts of barbs aimed at his social class or ideological allegiance...