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...GENTLE BARBARIAN by V.S. PRITCHETT 243 pages. Random House...
...This brisk, critical Life operates under a great handicap: Pritchett does not read Russian; literary and biographical sources come almost entirely from translations. But the author has the compensating virtues of insight and wit. Turgenev's oeuvre has long been accessible to an English-speaking audience; The Gentle Barbarian at last makes the neglected author as approachable as his work...
Ideological discrimination has been no less violent. The tenets of racism have beer developed and continue to be taught at no less than this country's most esteemed universities. The characterizations of blacks as animal, barbarian, infantile, pre-scientific, intellectually inferior, psychologically disadvantaged, and morally unsound continue to buttress the intellectual foundations of social relations in this country. How perfectly consistent that no attempt would be made on the part of universities to study thoroughly the history and civilizations of the African continent without the pressure of vocal militants. How perfectly consistent that American colonizers would ignore all the history...
...This barbarian caused enough blood to be spilled inside and outside China to float the navies of the world from here to eternity-where the real judgment will be made...
...forsake our responsibilities to God, family, and country. It does not allow for socialism, pornography, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," abortion, or other crimes that call to Heaven for vengeance; for morality is a civilizing influence on man. It tames the savage and it can regenerate the cultured barbarian. It helps to make men docile, disposed to learn...