Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...choice of tactic may, by unconscious design, meet the requirements of the moment. And this is what happened. The perfect way both to fight for one's rights and at the same time to convince one's opponent that one is not an uncontrolled savage, is to fight, to resist--non-violently. The pictures and stories of Negroes at lunch counters and on picket lines, being spat upon, cursed, struck, beaten, dragged away and yet never speaking back, never lifting a limb in self-defense--this "new Negro" broke the image of slovenly, slap-happy, sex-and violence- ridden Sambo...
...blast. Replying, he leaned forward in his seat, spoke over his folded hands. "It is very easy to resign," he said. "It is not so easy to stay on. It is very easy to bow to the wish of a big power. It is another matter to resist...
...blossoming of the book industry has attracted hungry investors. "Those Wall Street houses are after all of us to go public," says Random House President Bennett Cerf. "They go around waving certified checks in publishers' faces-and I've never seen a publisher yet that could resist a certified check." Ran dom House could not resist, put some 222,060 shares of its stock on sale last October for 11¼. It was eagerly snapped up, now sells for about $31. Harcourt, Brace stock first went on the market last summer at 23½, is selling at about...
...life are subverted by the child buyer. But Barry himself for three days holds the senators and child buyer at bay, and it is hard to remember that he is still a small boy, tied to his mother. When he loses her support, he has no further reason to resist. The promise of even keener intelligence at last buys the child, like a sort of junior Faust. Barry's curtain speech is memorable and moving: "I was wondering about the Forgetting Chamber. If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything, where would they go? Just out into...
...orange water and squirting them with it. Marie resents the dirty restaurants, and he gets even by suggesting a local delicacy, grilled sheep's testicles. Before long, he manages to devise a hurt to meet each of her objections. During one of their recurring fights, he has to resist the impulse to strike her, and then the truth reaches him too. Throwing the word "coward" at him, Marie, pregnant again, sets out to visit an abortionist and finally a lawyer. Strangers is a grim little book but an uncompromisingly honest one. Author Memmi confines himself to a careful, patient...