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salutary

Like James, he saw salutary effects in how automation organized workers.

—p.71 Against Automation (57) by Gavin Mueller
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propitiousness

It was a propitious time and place for an ardent militant determined to wage war against white supremacy.

—p.200 On Afropessimism (198) by Jesse McCarthy
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misprision

The misprisions that ensnared Othello are invoked.

—p.196 The Protest Poets (188) by Jesse McCarthy
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paterfamilias

who appears to play the role of a surrogate paterfamilias

—p.178 Fathers and Sons (176) by Jesse McCarthy
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lacuna

Jonathan Franzen wrote a review for the New York Times that ignored any discussion of race, a stupefying lacuna; Whitehead says that Franzen in fact later apologized for it

—p.174 Underground Man (163) by Jesse McCarthy
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