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Some Southerners also took issue with my assertion that for much of this century, most whites below the Mason-Dixon line exhibited moral and intellectual qualities that were rather bestial. This statement neither condemns all Southern whites nor excuses the North's racism. For most of the 20th century, almost all white Americans have held warped and loathsome racial views. But the South created a particularly hellish, suffocating environment for black Americans...
...character of Caliban (Jack Willis) also goes against convention. Instead of a quick-tempered, bestial brute, Daniels casts Caliban as a calm, wry cynic. He thus lends a shrewd, cynical edge to lines usually spoken in anger or resentment: "You taught me language; and my profit on't is, I know how to curse; the red plague rid you for learning me your language...
...play intercuts the surpeal island scene with Bishop's memories about his miserable childhood and his parents' failed marriage, it becomes clear that what we are seeing is as much about the savagery of "ordinary" life as about the savagery of the jungle. When Bishop finally turns bestial, leading inevitably to the rape of his mother, we know that it is the whole past, not just the Lord of the Flies situation, that has driven...
Indeed, we have hosted Yasser Arafat in our communal "house," and, knowledgeable as we were of his bestial history, we should never have afforded him the distinction of a "welcome guest." When all is said and done, on Tuesday, October 24, Harvard "wined and dined" a murderer...
...drive to have children. Cairo's open space per capita must be measured in square inches, and the poorest citizens build shelters on rooftops, in cemeteries and in the city dump. Cramped conditions are nothing new, of course, but even old-timers lament that population pressures are making Egyptians "bestial" to one another...