Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bear and the Book...
...crux of the Western human condition lies in what the great Indian Chief Drowning Bear said in a penetratingly revealing remark about the Bible: "It seems to be a very good book. Strange that the white people are not better, after having had it so long...
...N.L.F. Despite its demands last week for its own name plates, license plates and flags at what it calls the "Conférence a Quatre"-a four-sided conference-the N.L.F. has not convinced Charles de Gaulle's government of its independence. The North Vietnamese cars bear the green-and-orange plates of the corps diplomatique. The N.L.F. has an ordinary black-and-white French license plate. South Viet Nam maintains a legation in Paris. The North Vietnamese have the lowest diplomatic status available, that of a mission. The N.L.F. has no status at all. Because the N.L.F. delegates...
Delicate Troubles. Much of the book echoes The Ginger Man, particularly because Beefy is so reminiscent of that rascal O'Keefe, Sebastian Dangerfield's friend. And many of the sexual scenes, often dominated by Beefy's rhetoric, bear an uncomfortable resemblance to those of the earlier book. But there is a dramatic shift in focus from the blatant hardships of the lower classes in Ginger Man to the more subtle and delicate troubles of the moneyed aristocracy. In both cases, there doesn't seem to be much justice for such money-haunted people as Balthazar, Beefy...
...Americans actually like crime: "We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. Criminals represent our alter egos, our 'bad' selves-rejected and projected. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do and, like scapegoats of old, they bear the burdens of our displaced guilt and punishment...