Word: whited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naked men and women who raced, stumbled, or sleepwalked through the first collection were beyond analysis or classification. Yet people came, looked, gasped, and saw themselves revealed in all their confusion, caught in their petty vice, their self-delusions laid bare. Though they turned away white-faced and shaken they came back for some when a second ordeal "What Am I Doing Here?" thrust itself forward-for they had also laughed...
...White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular film comeback in a hurtling drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept...
...snag is that few ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind...
When Lillian Smith was a little girl in the deep South, a new Negro family moved to town. With the family came Janie, its adopted white-skinned child. Janie disturbed white folks. "They must have kidnaped her," said one of the ladies in Mrs. Smith's club...
...sexual mores, the South further entangled itself in the guilts bred by the evil of slavery. To buttress his sense of superiority, the Southerner elevated the white woman to an impossible level of "purity" and then, to satisfy his instinctual needs, he turned to the Negroes with their "physical grace and rhythm and . . . psychosexual vigor." Each time that the Southerner "found the backyard temptation irresistible, his conscience split more deeply from his acts...