Word: graying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another liberal senator and long-time supporter of Federal aid, Paul Douglas (D-III.), is opposed to the exemptions. Kenneth E. Gray, his legislative assistant, said Douglas feels the "tax system is riddled with loopholes and they are destroying it." Douglas, he said, "thinks taxes should be paid on the basis of income received, not income spent." The Illinois senator strongly supports direct Federal grants and loans, however...
...hottest fashion item of the moment at Sak's Fifth Avenue (next to Elsie's) is a smart gray and white striped seersucker dinner jacket. As tradition dictates, it has one button natural shoulders, flap pockets and shawl collar...
...good example of this is the case of the light-skinned "Negro," the "passer." While liberals try to move forward, their attitude in this area is essentially that long ago erected by the slave owners: a man is either totally white, or he is black. There is no gray. Liberal friends of mine condemn a person because he, being 1/16 "colored," says he is white and "passes" for white; he is "rejecting his heritage." (It is no paradox that most of the leaders of the Black Muslims are light, although not light enough to "pass"; part of their attitude...
...problem, could recognize their mutual classifying in terms of race, rather than in terms of individuals, perhaps a start could be made. I may be condemned as undemocratic if I say that in the white world the white person is judged on his merits, as an individual; in the gray world everyone should be so judged. The Aryan scientist is a far more valuable person to the rest of mankind than is a Negro drunkard; and a Negro scientist is worth more than a white rapist; these cases of merit are clear. Our trouble is that as the distinctions blur...
...Smiling tenderly, the hero slips a ring on the finger of his bride (Dorian Gray), and the priest declares them man and wife. A jeweler in the wedding party steps forward with a diamond tiara. "Father,"' the groom says piously, "I have brought a little gift to the Virgin." The priest accepts it gratefully: "How good of you, my son." The jeweler walks briskly out of the church, clutching a fat check from the groom and confident that, even if it bounces, the priest will honorably render unto Caesar. But the instant he is out of sight, the "priest...