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  • "You know you're a stereotype, right?"†   (source)
  • This is the form that racial and ethnic stereotypes take.†   (source)
  • "I'm not stereotyping."†   (source)
  • "But," Eleanor insisted, "the girls are all so stereotypically girly and passive.†   (source)
  • A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.†   (source)
  • Better to stay inconspicuous and let the humans have their stereotypes.†   (source)
  • The same stereotypical representations that are usually shown in movies.†   (source)
  • There's an old stereotype that says that Lusians are as subtle as a stomach pump and about half as pleasant.†   (source)
  • It was the existence of the new prototype—or, more accurately, the stereotype—of the NFL left tackle that made him so interesting to football coaches.†   (source)
  • The papers were so good and Annaliese looked so unlike the Nazi stereotype of a Jew, that she went freely in and out of the house, shopping and helping out at the school, giving herself out to be a friend of the family whose husband had died in the bombing of Rotterdam.†   (source)
  • They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer.†   (source)
  • But the Dodge minivan he drove didn't quite go with that image, and he was too smart to fit any stereotype.†   (source)
  • Oh, not that he had written particularly well the story was hot, but the characters as stereotyped and predictable as ever , but this time he had been able to at least generate some power; this time there was heat baking out from between the lines.†   (source)
  • To reveal myself to you as a very large, white grandfather figure with flowing beard, like Gandalf, would simply reinforce your religious stereotypes, and this weekend is not about reinforcing your religious stereotypes.†   (source)
  • In his well-trimmed beard and dark master's robe, he still reminded me of the stereotypical evil magician that appears in so many bad Aturan plays.†   (source)
  • She gathers examples of stereotypes, slights and ill-informed rants to try to educate the offenders and the public.†   (source)
  • I suppose I had her stereotyped—that a girl who posts updates on her life five times a day for anyone to see would have no real understanding of what a secret is.†   (source)
  • In the general surgery department, I encountered several men who acted like the pompous, stereotyped surgeons.†   (source)
  • Columbus has become such a schoolbook stereotype it's almost impossible to imagine him as a living human being anymore.†   (source)
  • He looked a little like the stereotypical local boss in an American gangster movie, but in fact he was a talented financial director who had begun his career as a junior accountant at Milton Security in the early seventies.†   (source)
  • It might have been a ridiculous stereotype, but this home had Martha Stewart written all over it, whereas Patrick's looked more like a crack house.†   (source)
  • We filled the football star/pom-pom captain stereotypical box everyone put us in.†   (source)
  • I am a stickler about punctuality, not only because I think it is a sign of respect to the person you are meeting but in order to combat the Western stereotype of Africans as being notoriously tardy.†   (source)
  • The stereotypes almost always accentuated the positive.†   (source)
  • (He straightens up and moves away from his mother, walking around the room) And maybe—maybe I'll just get down on my black knees … (He does so; RUTH and BENNIE and MAMA watch him in frozen horror) "Captain, Mistuh, Bossman—(Groveling and grinning and wringing his hands in profoundly anguished imitation of the slowwitted movie stereotype) A-hee-hee-hee!†   (source)
  • Honestly, I had the movie-star vampyre stereotype in mind—tall, dangerous, handsome.†   (source)
  • In fact, the preferences expressed by online daters fit snugly with the most common stereotypes about men and women.†   (source)
  • Massive men, their boots making the most stereotypically ominous storm-trooper noise, entered the Camp carrying restraints.†   (source)
  • Expert, stereotyped, pretty funny.†   (source)
  • "You don't have to live down to the stereotypes people have about you," I had said to him earlier.†   (source)
  • Reed was not the stereotypical mailman.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, traditional stereotypes about immigrants would persist.†   (source)
  • In such an overtly, stereotypically male narrative, I thought that straightforward chronology would be more suitable than the kind of play with sequence and time I had employed in my previous novels.†   (source)
  • He played with the stereotype of the dumb jock the way someone Sammy's age played with sidewalk chalk: in broad, clumsy strokes.†   (source)
  • For the Marines fighting America's War in the Pacific it was a familiar stereotyped pattern.†   (source)
  • Lorenz was big and burly, a sort of sitcom-father stereotype with a more gritty, Northeastern twist.†   (source)
  • The great house, Ravenwood Manor, looked just like the stereotypical Southern plantation that people from up North would expect to see after all those years of watching movies like Gone with the Wind.†   (source)
  • The desire to get everything right, deeply ingrained in these reflex achievers, should force them to rely on stereotypes about who will know what.†   (source)
  • That call meant a great deal, because it came from someone who knew neither her mother nor the drunks with their daily stereotypically scabrous remarks.†   (source)
  • Imagine every cruel stereotype you can think of, that's him.†   (source)
  • Skateboarding has gained mainstream recognition in recent years, but it still has negative stereotypes.†   (source)
  • I had just one bad day at Harvard, but only because I lived up to my own stereotype.†   (source)
  • Position by body stereotype.†   (source)
  • An environment totally ruled by gender stereotypes and expectations, as pathetic as those who chose to inhabit it.†   (source)
  • But in Deo's experience the stereotypes didn't hold.†   (source)
  • It gives me permission to say stereotypical things about white girls.†   (source)
  • Linguist Dennis Baron, who heads the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says that, like it or not, people are always going to stereotype people by their speech.†   (source)
  • Objective understanding—without blind prejudice and ignorant stereotypes.†   (source)
  • Other people thought it was about female slavery, others that it was a stereotyping of women in negative and trivial domestic roles.†   (source)
  • What is obvious, unfortunately for him, is his somewhat stereotypical physician's mien, the stiff brush of his manner, the prickly tongue, that put-out-ness that is rarely endearing in a man so young, all of which is no doubt due to his frustration (as he's often expressed) that he works in this sleepy upcountry hospital instead of in a big-city research and teaching institution with his own lab assistants and grant writers and ambitions of scientific glory.†   (source)
  • Well before significant Union invasions of the South, Confederate soldiers' letters bristled with these negative stereotypes.†   (source)
  • All the jokes, the stereotypes of psychiatrists flood his mind: they are mad, then children are mad.†   (source)
  • Oh, wait: No, we do all want not to be stereotyped by ignorant white trash.†   (source)
  • Every athletic coach at Bartlett High has been trying to recruit him since he first walked through the school doors, but he refuses to be a black stereotype.†   (source)
  • Maddie flips back and forth between being a stereotypical redneck and being awfully smart.†   (source)
  • In fact, none of us were stereotypical duck hunters; we're not the white-collar guys who dress up in camo on the weekends and go hunting.†   (source)
  • It wasn't in any obvious, stereotypical way, but he was my best friend and I knew him better than anyone.†   (source)
  • Mistakenly, I had expected a stereotyped vulgarity.†   (source)
  • George was short and on the slender side, not the towering, heavily muscled stereotype of the blacksmith celebrated in Longfellow's poem.†   (source)
  • Zeke and Ida mouthed the regional prejudices against blacks constantly, and believed implicitly in almost every stereotype ever concocted against blacks in the South.†   (source)
  • McCandless didn't conform particularly well to the bush-casualty stereotype.   (source)
    stereotype = simplistic classification
  • We just can't get past the stereotype of the dumb jock.   (source)
    stereotype = an oversimplified set of characteristics used to classify people -- especially incorrectly
  • But the stereotype isn't a good fit.   (source)
    stereotype = simplistic classification
  • It would be easy to stereotype Christopher McCandless as another boy who felt too much, a loopy young man who read too many books and lacked even a modicum of common sense.   (source)
    stereotype = simplistically classify
  • My grandparents didn't people of different races and religions. They had all kinds of crazy stereotypes.
  • At that age, I was a stereotypical spoiled brat.
  • I told them about Genaro and how he was stereotyped because his father was an alcoholic.†   (source)
  • We all get stereotyped for different things.†   (source)
  • I never knew a black man who felt this stereotyped view fit him.†   (source)
  • Fm Sushi K and I'm here to say I like to rap in a different way Look out Number One in every city Sushi K rap has all most pretty My special talking of remarkable words Is not the stereotyped bucktooth nerd My hair is big as a galaxy Cause I attain greater technology Hiro follows Squeaky away from the crowd, into the dimly lit area on the edge of the shantytown.†   (source)
  • Among his papers on the subject are: Robert Provine, "Yawning as a Stereotyped Action Pattern and Releasing Stimulus," Ethology (1983), vol. 72, pp. 109-122.†   (source)
  • As he walks, Cedric is reminded of the "wanting to be white" taunts at Ballou, about the stereotyped notions that so many people hold (movies are certainly good at pointing up those, he mulls) and how far all that is from the real issues and interactions he's grappling with.†   (source)
  • She said that the speech that is stereotyped in Clueless is based on the actual California dialect, which can now be studied as one could study a Southern dialect or a dialect spoken in Appalachia.†   (source)
  • Well, if we started out with the naive approach, which was, if this regional accent is stereotyped as being unintelligent, let's make sure we never use it in any application that would imply a need for intelligence, then those stereotypes would be strong reinforced.†   (source)
  • How could white men ever really know black men if on every contact the white man's stereotyped view of the black man got in the way?†   (source)
  • They could not see me or any other black man as a human individual because they buried us under the garbage of their stereotyped view of us.†   (source)
  • You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.†   (source)
  • He was indeed the stereotypical unappreciated genius.†   (source)
  • And so much for the stereotype of scrawny nerds being the only ones fascinated by aliens.†   (source)
  • You have the option to accept, reject, or change the stereotypes that currently exist.†   (source)
  • He had no idea where the stereotype of dumb giggly blondes came from.†   (source)
  • I believe that I--not any stereotype--should define who I am and what actions I take in life.†   (source)
  • There it is again: "playing position by body stereotype."†   (source)
  • And he thought he could identify some classmates by stereotype.†   (source)
  • It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in.†   (source)
  • What would determine whether the technology reinforces or modifies these stereotypes?†   (source)
  • You can't live your life under a stereotype.†   (source)
  • What would women think of that stereotyping—buy a Hummer?†   (source)
  • I want to congratulate you on your senior project titled "Stereotypes, Rumors, and Statistics."†   (source)
  • If you simply paired stereotypical faces and accents, that would reinforce stereotypes.†   (source)
  • Could it be that people don't want others to beat stereotypes?†   (source)
  • Already, I'd been fighting the stereotypes myself.†   (source)
  • And because of the ubiquity of computer systems, it would make those stereotypes even stronger.†   (source)
  • "I'm thinking about a project that will explore how people are influenced by stereotypes."†   (source)
  • If you simply paired stereotypical faces and accents, that would reinforce stereotypes.†   (source)
  • My whole life I had to fight against the stereotypes and the labels they gave me.†   (source)
  • What had sounded like a white man talking Southern now "sounded" stereotypically African American.†   (source)
  • Nass said, "Now, stereotypically, that voice is appropriate, it's a Southern accent.†   (source)
  • "I'm fighting against those stereotypes and rumors because the reality is ….†   (source)
  • Then I showed a short video I found on YouTube called "Stop Stereotypes.†   (source)
  • An accomplished businesswoman employed by Federal Express in Tokyo, Yasuko didn't fit the meek, deferential stereotype of a middle-aged Japanese woman.†   (source)
  • Although not a conscious thing on my part, I like to look back and think that my intellectual growth helped to erase the stereotypical idea of Blacks being intellectually inferior.†   (source)
  • March, a white-haired widow who would have to stand on the Los Angeles phone book to reach five feet, has spent decades trying to undo stereotypes about mental illness, and Cruise has created a stir with his unsolicited comments on the subject.†   (source)
  • Clichés and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be.†   (source)
  • Sometimes people of Asian background get offended when their culture is described this way, because they think that the stereotype is being used as a form of disparagement.†   (source)
  • Mamaw always resented the hillbilly stereotype—the idea that our people were a bunch of slobbering morons.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, for example; they were an education in condescension to women—all by themselves, they created sexual stereotypes!†   (source)
  • Stereotype has it" that someone born on Lusus hates to leave the Hive and suffers from instant agoraphobia if we visit anything more open to the elements that a shopping mall.†   (source)
  • She was more ambitious than he was, befitting a woman determined to reverse sexual stereotypes; she thought that speaking parts for males were perfect for her.†   (source)
  • His once-low grades had been climbing nicely for more than a year, but he was enrolled in a predominantly White school, and Mother had no doubt that the counselor was operating from the stereotypical thinking that Blacks were incapable of college work.†   (source)
  • In his religious habits, Dad lived the stereotype of a culturally conservative Protestant with Southern roots, even though the stereotype is mostly inaccurate.†   (source)
  • About twenty to twenty-five years ago, social activists started a campaign to get rid of unfair, negative racial stereotypes.†   (source)
  • Another added: "You should be ashamed of yourself for reinforcing old, false stereotypes and not giving a more accurate picture of Appalachia.†   (source)
  • Amanda Dowling was a pioneer in challenging sexual stereotypes; she wore men's clothes—fancy dress, for her, meant a coat and tie—and when she smoked, she blew smoke in men's faces, this being at the heart of her opinions regarding how men behaved toward women.†   (source)
  • Sexual stereotypes did not fall, she liked to say, from the clear blue sky; books were the major influences upon children—and books that had boys being boys, and girls being girls, were among the worst offenders!†   (source)
  • Both her husband and Amanda were in favor of creating mayhem with sexual stereotypes, or reversing sexual roles as arduously and as self-consciously as possible—hence, he often wore an apron while shopping; hence, her hair was shorter than his, except on her legs and in her armpits, where she grew it long.†   (source)
  • They were childless—Dan Needham suggested that their sexual roles might be so "reversed" as to make childbearing difficult—and their attendance at Little League games was marked by a constant disapproval of the sport: that little girls were not allowed to play in the Little League was an example of sexual stereotyping that exercised the Dowlings' humorlessness and fury.†   (source)
  • Sure, I rode a Triumph Trophy, volunteered to work with gang youth, and broke the stereotype of a priest any chance I got—but inside here was the man whose life I had voted to end.†   (source)
  • He wore a white lab coat over a business suit and a stethoscope around his neck—your stereotypical doctor outfit, except for one thing: Asclepius held a polished black staff with a live green python coiled around it.†   (source)
  • He'd see it in terms of the captain deserting the sinking ship ahead of the women and children, giving up the Alamo, every stereotype you can think of.†   (source)
  • But if you look closely at who he was, he fits the stereotype of the kind of person who ends up in violent situations.†   (source)
  • Venkatesh soon encountered another anomalous young Fellow, one who also failed the society stereotype.†   (source)
  • He doesn't say anything for a few shuffling steps, then: "So how long has Mr. Naïve Thick-headed Stereotypical Jock been your boyfriend?"†   (source)
  • When is he going to realize that he doesn't have to live up to the stereotype everyone else has placed on him?†   (source)
  • "Honey," another prisoner drawled to me, "everyone here is just trying to live up to the worst cultural stereotype possible."†   (source)
  • Jack was greatly given to robust jokes that Esther hated and Klara kind of liked, the kind of joke you're supposed to like in spite of yourself, outdated stones with stupid stereotypes and a range of dialects, but sly in the manner in which they welcome the listener's complicity—Jack told jokes in which nothing ever changes.†   (source)
  • They stopped relying on the actual evidence of their senses and fell back on a rigid and unyielding system, a stereotype.†   (source)
  • Selena grinned, hoping that this was some small clue that her son would grow up to act against stereotype and do whatever he was most comfortable doing.†   (source)
  • Now, here was an excellent example of the stereotype of the gorgeous vamp guy, up close and personal.†   (source)
  • It's just a dumb stereotype."†   (source)
  • "A naïve, thick-headed, stereotypical jock who thinks he's God's gift to the world when he isn't thinking the world is God's gift to him."†   (source)
  • She looked like someone had turned on a blazing inner light within her, which I realize is definitely an ironic description considering the vampyre stereotypes (some of which I already knew were totally true): They avoid sunlight, they're most powerful at night, they need to drink blood to survive (eesh!†   (source)
  • My very first experience with the "playing position by body stereotype" philosophy and approach to the game was in my first year of playing Pee Wee football at Lakeshore.†   (source)
  • But physical stereotypes were all they had to go on, since Burundian IDs no longer revealed ethnicity.†   (source)
  • The only hard part is dealing with my own and other people's stereotypes, and learning to focus on internal rewards rather than humble appearances.†   (source)
  • We have a sense of what a leader is supposed to look like, and that stereotype is so powerful that when someone fits it, we simply become blind to other considerations.†   (source)
  • I had a decent day of passing, and that gave the coaches a chance to see that I was more than just someone ("playing position by body stereotype") who could run around a little bit.†   (source)
  • This ensured that by the time of Deo's youth it was hard to tell Hutus and Tutsis apart simply by looks, stereotypes notwithstanding.†   (source)
  • He told some people precisely what the experiment was about and told them explicitly to avoid stereotypes based on race.†   (source)
  • They all seemed to have a particular body type and lack of athleticism in mind that they associated with that of a quarterback and therefore always looked for another position that better fit their stereotype of my body type.†   (source)
  • "When we make a split-second decision," Payne says, "we are really vulnerable to being guided by our stereotypes and prejudices, even ones we may not necessarily endorse or believe."†   (source)
  • When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement—and the number of items they got right was cut in half.†   (source)
  • In many ways I thought I'd silenced this debate from my freshman year of high school with how I'd played, and yet here I was again, four years later, hearing the same old "playing position by body stereotype" argument—only this time it was disguised as analysis: My type of quarterback wouldn't work in college.†   (source)
  • Obviously it's got its stereotypes about dogs, trucks, beer, and kissing your cousin, but I like the way it sounds.†   (source)
  • Like having all the physics lectures done in that regional accent'—that would then, because of the way our brains are voice-activated, that would lead us to weaken that stereotype and potentially eliminate it.†   (source)
  • Consistent with the stereotype that praise from males is taken more seriously than praise from females, participants in the experiments rated the tutor computer as significantly more competent and more friendly when it was praised by a "male" computer than by a "female" computer.†   (source)
  • In my family, the stereotype I struggle against is teen pregnancy, but in other families, it might be problems like drugs or gangs or violence.†   (source)
  • To each his stereotype!†   (source)
  • If she worked her butt off to defy the stereotype, then why would anyone try to take that away from her?†   (source)
  • So is the matter we discussed with Cliff Nass, the stereotypes that are deeply lodged in the linguistic psyche of America.†   (source)
  • To this day, I continue to fight not to live my life as a stereotype and the hot topic of everyone's rumors.†   (source)
  • People, when they see a face, they bring to bear stereotypes about how that person should behave, think, and speak.†   (source)
  • People began to stereotype me as a pregnant teen who is irresponsible, going to get my way because they thought people were going to be nicer to me because of the baby, not willing to continue in school, and even, 'Oh, I knew she was going to get pregnant.†   (source)
  • We left the lab to walk around to the Education Department, where John Baugh works, to ask what he thought of the Nass experiments and stereotyping.†   (source)
  • Each person dropped their sign to show another sign behind it with statements that went against the stereotype: "I'm a member of Big Brothers of America," "I'm a straight-A student," and similar messages.†   (source)
  • It crystallized a thought I'd been working through for some time: Why do people give in to the stereotypes others have about them?†   (source)
  • Nass said, "The fear there was that there were stereotypes associated with that particular accent, so that was ruled out."†   (source)
  • They thought to solve it by substituting synthetic voices so clearly nonhuman that people would not succumb to gender stereotypes, but people still did.†   (source)
  • This is how stereotypes originate, because people would rather read the labels on the box instead of taking a look and seeing what's inside….†   (source)
  • Overall, I think that stereotyping is a useless thing that limits people and dooms them to repeat others' mistakes.†   (source)
  • That may even produce more tolerance and appreciation of the linguistic diversity of this country, and less negative stereotyping of some dialects (such as New York or Southern) as "bad English."†   (source)
  • ") There, Levy says, like is not intended to introduce a literal, verbatim quotation, but an illustrative example, letting her "offer a stereotypical response for her brother."†   (source)
  • My purpose today is to tell you about my experience as a soon-to-be teen mom and the stereotypes and rumors that came along with that.†   (source)
  • BMW had to recall the product and change the voice to male, which is where Cliff Nass came in, to decide what kind of male voice—and here a forest of stereotypes sprang up.†   (source)
  • But on a more personal level, I also wanted to open up a discussion about stereotypes and statistics.†   (source)
  • When those stereotypes run counter, people don't say, 'Oh, this person was brought up in a particular place, that's how their family spoke,' they say, 'There's something wrong here.'†   (source)
  • You're probably wondering, How is this seventeen-year-old fighting against stereotypes and rumors when it seems that she did the complete opposite?"†   (source)
  • He said many people assume that, because we have television and radio and we're all hearing the same voices time and again through broadcasters, somehow our stereotypes have diminished.†   (source)
  • If I could get my message across right, maybe I could get my peers to think about how to rise above whatever stereotypes people have about them, too.†   (source)
  • If this technology were in the hands of a government agency, with the promotion of racial equality an important policy goal, it would probably make an effort to use the technology to break down stereotypes.†   (source)
  • It's worth it if one person realizes he doesn't have to believe the stereotypes that other people have about him, and that he can exceed everyone's expectations.†   (source)
  • With my permission, my mentor had called the local paper to tell them I was going to do a good presentation about stereotypes and rumors, and they offered to send a reporter.†   (source)
  • So, we asked, will this new technology reinforce these stereotypes, that a black man and a white should each speak in a certain way, or could it be used to break them down, in the interest of promoting greater tolerance for diversity?†   (source)
  • "My senior project is about stereotypes, rumors, and statistics, and in order to study my topic, I introduced a fake pregnancy so I could learn about people's reactions.†   (source)
  • This was an interesting example of applied stereotyping—the assumption that affluent Americans are happy to buy German cars for their prestige, status, and fine engineering, but not if they talk with a German accent!†   (source)
  • It showed kids holding up large signs with negative stereotypes about teens written on them: that we're party animals, we're bad drivers, we make bad decisions, we are self-centered, and so on.†   (source)
  • Well, if we started out with the naive approach, which was, if this regional accent is stereotyped as being unintelligent, let's make sure we never use it in any application that would imply a need for intelligence, then those stereotypes would be strong reinforced.†   (source)
  • So, if there is a synthetic female voice, or a real female voice from a computer, that computer is now a female, from Alabama, with all the stereotypes that we would associate with an actual human female from Alabama.†   (source)
  • Not many people are willing to talk about being on the receiving end, but here I am today to let you know, being your peer and walking in the same halls as you do, that I hear what's being said, and I know you would rather talk about the stereotypes at hand than the stereotypes being broken."†   (source)
  • Whatever stereotypes people bring to bear in hearing a human talk will come into play when they are dealing with a computer: "If the computer has a female voice, it will be perceived as doing stereotypi-cally better in areas that are typically associated with women—for example, discussion of love and relationships.†   (source)
  • It showed pictures of children being excluded and whispered about, along with a few sentences on the possible consequences of stereotypes and rumors—depression, stress, drugs, violence, and even death.†   (source)
  • I gave him as much detail as I could about what I envisioned: I would keep a journal about my experiences, enlist my best friend to listen in on the hall chatter about me, write down the comments people said about me on cards to be read at a school assembly at the end of the year, and talk about why it's important not to follow the negative stereotypes other people may have about you.†   (source)
  • I had unwittingly created a new stereotype among the island people and it seemed insidiously pervasive among the parents.†   (source)
  • …mirror, seen nothing amiss in my physiognomy, indeed I must say modestly that all is well: my strong nose and brown intelligent eyes, good complexion, excellent bone structure (not so fine, thank God, as to appear "aristocratic," but possessing enough angularities to prevent my looking coarsely plebeian) and rather humorous mouth and chin all merge into a face that could reasonably be called handsome, though it is certainly far from the stereotype handsomeness of a V italic ad.†   (source)
  • If you asked them what that "place" was, they could not really say, but every black man knew that place was right in the middle of the stereotype.†   (source)
  • But they became stereotyped, pillared, and pompous up at the top fronting the main road.†   (source)
  • There was not a single line of stereotyped abuse that had not been drummed into me for years till I was sick and tired of it.†   (source)
  • For three mornings he accompanied the retiring carrier, gathering his mind to focal intensity while he tried to memorize each stereotyped movement of the delivery, tracing again and again the labyrinthine web of Niggertown, wreaking his plan out among the sprawled chaos of clay and slime, making incandescent those houses to which a paper was delivered, and forgetting the others.†   (source)
  • Good God, I thought, so now I am to be initiated, and made to feel at home in this world of idlers and pleasure seekers, a world that is utterly strange and repugnant to me and that to this day I have always carefully avoided and utterly despised, a smooth and stereotyped world of marble-topped tables, jazz music, cocottes and commercial travelers!†   (source)
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