Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What seemed lacking in Hadrian VII was a clear resolve to explore Rolfe's personality. Though we can readily laugh at what he has imagined, we are confused by a suspicion that Rolfe the man must have been more complex and brilliant than he comes across in his own fantasy. To present the man and his fantasy in one play, something had to go and it was not humor but psychological depth...
...when they got off the boat was the term "nigger"-it made them feel instantly American. But this is tricky magic. Despite his racial difference and social status, something indisputably American about Negroes not only raised doubts about the white man's value system but aroused the troubling suspicion that whatever else the true American is, he is also somehow black...
...jury," they underscored a truism of human affairs-that a people's respect for law depends largely on the law's respect for them. It is an equal truism of U.S. life that nearly all black defendants are tried by white juries, a fact that fuels black suspicion of "white...
...black writers, black reporters. They found one reporter-me." Sometimes employers will lower hiring standards for blacks, many of whom lack training simply because they never received much encouragement to go into journalism. This can lead to resentment on the part of qualified blacks, who feel that it casts suspicion on their own abilities. Says Lem Tucker, a Washington correspondent for NBC: "I can understand the initial skepticism. But after two years of doing good work, it makes me mad." Many black newsmen persist, however, and some have already demonstrated that they are among the best newsmen...
...black seeking a job today is in many ways like being an immigrant in one's own country. Like immigrant groups of the past, blacks are victims of mass suspicion and slander-that they are too lazy, or too pushy, or not bright enough, or have aptitudes unsuited for the world of work, or do not fit in. Immigrants -Poles, Scandinavians, Italians, Irish-have overcome similar slanders and made their way ahead. But blacks are indelibly different. Because of their color, they cannot blend into the national melting scene as others did. In today's technological economy, they...