Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Real Struggle." No dandy, Beaumont likes to wear a sweater and crumpled slacks. His nails are grimy, and a shoelace is often untied. He gives heavily but anonymously to charity and is quite unembarrassed by his wealth. "My chief job as a Christian is to use my money wisely," he says. "Having lots of money and a big house like this can be very useful, you know, and it is the inner life that really matters. It is there that the real struggle must take place...
...public toilets, post office windows, but in many buildings, separate elevators. Africans often outsmart white starters by getting on or off white elevators on the second floor, where the starters cannot catch them. Escalators, however, are integrated; the only rule, and a humane one at that, requires passengers to wear shoes-in the past, too many barefoot blacks have lost their toes...
...news carefully; she is always alert for the informed conversation that will give her a hard news story. "Getting anything out of the people who are the news of the day is the most important thing," she says. "I try for the hard news. To me, what people wear is not important. Nor is what they eat. What makes good reading is what they say." In pursuit of what people say, Betty cheerfully butts into conversations, shamelessly descends on eminences emerging from a tête-à-tête, and inquires what was said. She later jots her gleanings...
...spend an initiation night in the men's communal hut cradling a freshly cut enemy head between their knees-a ceremony that requires a new crop of heads each time. The headhunters, photographed in the same general territory where 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller was lost last year, wear skulls dangling from their necks as magic charms against evil, and they tuck skulls under their heads as pillows at night. Despite the archly ominous narration of the sound track, the headhunters prove curiously unsavage. Poling their dugout canoes like racing shells along the jungle streams, decked in white-feathered...
...Hasidic teachers, taught until World War II. The Satmar Jews are probably the strictest group in Orthodox Judaism. They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly to the rules of modesty laid down in the Old Testament. Williamsburg has other devout Jews, but the Satmar congregation proudly regards itself as the true voice of Hasidism-the mystical, lyrical interpretation of the Jewish faith that developed in the ghettos of eastern Europe during...