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Three minutes later Harvard's lead was still a tenuous 60-58, but Dartmouth began to commit an extraordinary number of fouls...
...Snobs ignore the kind of environmental explanation for Irish-Americans' prejudice that they are so quick to advance when it is pointed out, for example, that Negroes commit a disproportionately large number of violent crimes. They can understand -- although not forgive -- the Negro's propensity to commit crimes, but they can only denounce the Irish-American for his racial prejudice. They forget that a tendency toward casual bigotry, as much as one toward violent crime, can be a result of an unfortunate environment; and that in American society the roles of Oppressed and Oppressor are usually intertwined within single persons...
...turn themselves into gentlemen but don't want to give up the morals of the coal patch. The period detail is meticulous, but the book as a whole, like most of the author's long novels, will be useful principally to the reader who wants to commit O'Hara-kiri...
...turn themselves into gentlemen but don't want to give up the morals of the coal patch. The period detail is meticulous, but the book as a whole, like most of the author's long novels, will be useful principally to the reader who wants to commit O'Hara-kiri...
...Post runs a daily column of lo cal events called "Everything Is News," and apparently everything is. "A young tailor recently tried to commit suicide in his employer's backroom," reported the Post, "by strangling himself with his wife's brassiere. Rescued just in time by one of his fellow workers, the tailor fled out of the door with the black lace brassiere between his teeth." What made him do it? "He had become engaged to a bar hostess," the Post concluded, "who was endowed with a most enviable bosom. However, after several months, he found his bride...