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...family. Incapable of loving, of really feeling alive, he is equally incapable of understanding why. Everything earlier than a moment in the family potting shed when he was 14 is blotted out of his mind, has been carefully blacked out of his family's, and offers not a chink of light to his psychoanalyst. The journey back-Greene ingeniously uses a cocky teen-ager to get him round a few tough corners-has too much of the real pull of a good detective story to be decently disclosed. On the other hand, the disclosures themselves-involving not just...
...exposed. ¶ Narcotics. Drug addiction and all its byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly, but anything inciting hatred among peoples is taboo. To be "avoided": the use of the words "chink, dago, frog, greaser, hunkie, kike, nigger, spik...
According to the book, the captain's first order of business is to deliver an address to the populace, explaining to them what democracy is and that they have it. Fisby explains. Everybody cheers. The captain is delighted-until his interpreter, a picturesque chink in U.S. defenses who is known as Sakini (Marlon Brando), explains that during 800 years of foreign occupation the Okinawans have learned to cheer whoever is in charge, no matter what he says. The captain is badly shaken -and so begins an alarming assault on American theory by Okinawan practice, a shameless corruption of democracy...
...Chink. In Dallas, officers of the 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard complained to police that prowlers kept entering the division motor compound and taking joy rides in jeeps...
...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...