Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TURPSN, by Stephen Jones. Beneath apparently calm minds, this novel discovers roiling terrors and savage comedy...
Still, black leaders reluctantly concede that anti-Semitism does exist in the Negro community. More than that, historians and sociologists have ample evidence that it has existed ? sometimes on the surface, more often beneath it ?since Jews and Negroes first came in contact with each other in the cities of the North. This confrontation took place shortly after World War I, when South ern Negroes began to move out of the plantation fields and into urban life...
...brick spire of a Catholic church, then the stubby red buildings of the Yard, and finally, William James, towering abrupt and white in the background. The church spire struggles for attention, but can't really match William James, which rises sleek, new and confident above the Cambridge sky-line. Beneath it, the quiet buildings of the Yard huddle together as if frightened or resentful, wrapped in tradition...
Lapidary Care. As for plot, Red Beard could be Dr. Gillespie, and the intern Dr. Kildare: the story is that simple. But where his hero is a physician, Kurosawa is a metaphysician. Going beneath the bathos, he explores his characters' psychology until their frailties and strengths become a sum of humanity itself. Despite his pretensions, the young doctor is as flawed-and believable-as his patients. If Red Beard himself is a heroic figure, he is nonetheless cast in a decidedly human mold: gruff and sometimes violent-as when he forcibly takes the girl from her captors-he keeps...
...Indian women who pelted him with live coals, jabbed him with burning poles and, after a warrior had torn off the prisoner's scalp with his teeth, poured a shovelful of live coals onto his exposed skull while he was still alive. Even so, says O'Meara, "beneath her streak of savagery the Indian woman frequently revealed a tenderness and compassion that touched even the casehardened trader." As for the mountain men, they all too often brought their Indian women liquor, prostitution and so much unhappiness that many "country wives" hanged themselves...