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 \n\"You see?You feel it,\"said McWilliams.“But I don't...”  \n\"You see,Bennett,people are conditioned from birth bysociety,by convention,by education,most of all by peopleof their own race and religion and color to distrust,tosuspect,people different from themselves.This distrust cutsoff all communication.I don't mean language.They cantalk the same language but without communication,without understanding.Remember the bogieman theytaught you about when you were little?”The man's thicklips twisted sardonically;his tone was mocking.“”Thebogieman'll get you if you don't watch out'.Some peoplenever outgrow their bogieman.Anyone different fromthem,is a bogieman.Something to fear and hate.\"  \nFew of us in this coddled,stainless steel societyfind time anymore for gandy dancing,for instance.(He's a guy who hammers spikes in railroad ties.)It'sa terrible way to make a living,but it's fine to have inyour past if you're going to write adventure fiction asClayton Matthews does.  \nMatthews has been around.Part of what makes aninteresting,convincing writer is his past.Someacquire such a ‘past'in the public library.But ifyou've been there in the flesh,as Matt has,you canmake it sound just a little sharper,more exciting.He'sbeen a carnival barker,wild animal trainer,surveyor,truck driver and even a hobo...and maybe a fewthings he's not mentioning  \nStarting in Waurika,Oklahoma,an undiscoverednumber of years ago,he now lives in Los Angeles.He's married,and the father of some eighty books,innumerable articles and a constant flow of shortstories.It's certain he won't have to return to gandydancing.  \nSM3HLIVW NOL人V70人8NOILIO3343IW3dd 773MOd V  \nCopyright ◎1970 by Clayton MatthewsPublished by POWELL PUBLICATIONS,INC.18554 Sherman Way,Reseda,California 91334Allrights reserved.All persons and events portrayedin this book are ficticious.Any resemblance to personsliving or dead,or to actual events,is purely coincidental.Printed and bound in the U.S.A.  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nAfter a little over two hours,Mendoza's defenseattorney was nearing the end of his summation.There were no accurate means of forecasting thelength of the lawyer's speech,but there was acertain feeling in the air.Perhaps it was thecumulative effect of the long trial which hadskipped from climactic hillock to climactic hillock,each peak towering ever higher until everyonepresent expected a veritable whopper of a climax.  \nAt any rate,those of the jury still interested,still undecided as to their verdict,were attentive.The others,those who had arrived at a verdicthours,even days,ago,merely tightened the rein ontheir impatience until they could escape to the juryroom,vote their convictions and go their separateways.  \nRick Bennett was one of those who settled hisattention on the defense attorney,not because thelawyer's eloquence might bear on his verdict,butsimply because the man interested him.  \nRick,with the judge's stern admonition to keepa clear and unprejudiced mind until all theevidence was in still vivid in his brain,was wellaware that he had arrived at a verdict;had,in allprobabilit","cbCailWzV8ps3miB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailWzV8ps3miB","pdf",9970637,212,"English","# Chapter One\n## Mendoza’s defense attorney begins and concludes his summation\n## Rick Bennett’s internal perspective during deliberations\n## Paul Mendoza’s description and jury attention\n## John Ransom’s “Remember the baker” parable","[{\"question\":\"What happens near the beginning of Chapter One in Paul Mendoza’s trial?\",\"answer\":\"John Ransom, Mendoza’s defense attorney, is nearing the end of his summation, while the jury grows increasingly attentive or impatient depending on when they arrived.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is Rick Bennett uncomfortable during the summations?\",\"answer\":\"Rick has likely formed his verdict already and recognizes he may have decided before the trial is many days old, making him uneasy.\"},{\"question\":\"What parable does the defense attorney use during his summation?\",\"answer\":\"Ransom tells of a baker condemned in Venice centuries ago, later found innocent, and explains how a “Remember the baker!” warning is repeated in murder trials.\"}]","ASTUDY IN THE TYRANNY OF COLOR - Chapter One - After a little over two hours | PDF",1790621367,326]