Word: cereno
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...candidate and his electorate. No matter what he says to the national media about winning scads of black votes in Alabama or accepting the law of the land, the implied message is in Wallace's wink--there is nothing to fear from the fighting judge, the Snopesian Benito Cereno who would take over the ship by crafty obeisance...
...Benito Cereno Wallace. The wiliest slave on the slaveship gets a letter from a fellow passenger. It is signed...
...Hans Werner Henze and a skilled hand in a variety of contemporary stylings, has composed a symphony (Ariel), which the National Symphony will perform next season. He is also writing a trio of one-act operas, one of which will be based on Herman Melville's story Benito Cereno. In Wilmington, Ohio, Robert J. Haskins is writing an operatic version of The Bell-Tower, also by Melville-not a writer known for his racy plots...
...will to submission," Toback calls it. If he forgoes examination of the malady's finer points and racial implications, it isn't because he left his copy of Benito Cereno in New York. It is because Toback got so busy trying to certify his manhood in what he believes to be the black man's terms that submission was soon out of the question. So was the magazine article he had intended to write. But by the time that became apparent, Toback and "J.B." were good friends. This odd book is a fascinating chronicle of that very...
...apartment examined in gossip columns ("the smart East 80s ... very solid, no patterns"). Now that Alexander Portnoy has made him a celebrity, he is dodging fame with SalI ingeresque determination-which, of course, only draws more attention to him. He used to answer the phone, "Benito Cereno here."* Now he doesn't answer his phone at all, and he tends...