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...John Griffin's self-enlightening tour through the South proves once again that you can find trouble if you look for it, and, while looking, you may see a reflection (the hate stare), as in a mirror, anywhere...
...gave up the custom when a disorder of his leg muscles forced him to walk with a cane. Now he usually does some paperwork in the library before being chauffeured to work in his 1958 grey Oldsmobile station wagon. The watchful eyes of his father and uncle stare down at him from the walls of his 19th-floor office...
...wave in his upper lip, handsome Actor Sanders has caused spasms of resentment and loathing among the viewers of some 70 movies (in his most notable villain's role, he won an Oscar as the caddish critic in All About Eve). The antipathy he evokes with his frigorific stare is all the more violent because he is an upper-class rotter, and the only actor since Erich von Stroheim and Charles Coburn who can wear a monocle without looking as if he is going to drop it in his soup...
...Hate Stare." Accepted without question as a Negro by both races, Griffin drifted through four states-Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia-well-dressed, comparatively well-heeled ($200 in traveler's checks), obviously well-educated, under his own name and ready to reveal the truth to anyone who asked. No one asked. His skin was black, and that was enough...
Throughout the South, Griffin encountered what he calls "the hate stare." Offering his seat to a white woman in a New Orleans streetcar, he watched her face stiffen into hostility. "What are you looking at me like that for?" she asked sharply, and turned away muttering, "They're getting sassier every day." Hitchhiking through Alabama, he was picked up by a white truck driver who inquired, with a leer, whether Griffin's wife had ever slept with a white man, informed him that "we're doing your race a favor to get some white blood into your...