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...race and religion. The Miami Herald draws a careful distinction between white cops, who are always "policemen," and Negro cops, who are always "patrolmen." In the Memphis Commercial Appeal if a minister is white, he is "the Rev.," if Negro he is simply "Rev." The Denver Post is explicit on Roman Catholic ritual: "Mass is celebrated, said or read. High Mass is sung, never held. The Rosary is recited or said, never read." But the Miami News takes the easy way out: "Write it 'the mass (or rosary) will be at 7 p.m.' rather than having it sung...
Several years later the abolition mistakenly became considered by observers as an explicit move to help create football "sanity"--the sacred term which today describes the strait jacket of the Ivy League which the Policy Committee does not dare to loosen. If the committee decides to reinstate spring football, for example, it will be accused of defeating its own purpose by inspiring football professionalism. Nevertheless, at the time of the abolition, "sanity" was aimed at inordinate recruitment and financial aid problems...
...Kane had said in a prepared statement, "Lefty was a competent teacher given too little time to teach.") Asked for an explicit state- ment on his feelings on spring practice in the Ivy League, Kane answered, "Td love it ... crews practice all fail, don't they...
...since World War II, sex has usually been treated with discretion bordering on propriety-at least by Western standards. Now Junichiro (The Makioka Sisters) Tanizaki, 74, Japan's leading novelist and author of 119 books, has written a story about sex and marriage that is as explicit as any novel on the theme since Lady Chatterley's Lover...
...pallor" of Miss Edgeworth's good Jews, like that of the other apologies in English literature--Dickens' Riah, DuMaurier's Leah, and Trollope's Trendelssohn--is explained by Rosenberg: "The chief reason . . . is that [the good Jew] has been almost consistently a product of far too obvious and explicit ulterior motives. He bore from the first the pale cast of after-thought. Given the convention, the authors who kept the Jew-villain in circulation created their man with a good deal of spontaneity. The Jew-villain might not be a realistic figure; but within the canons of comedy and melodrama...