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Clearly, if there is sufficient evidence of police corruption to disgust the Governor and to send the city into a stew, Cardinal Cushing's defense can be dismissed as an irrational view of a question on which he simply was not qualified to pronounce. Unfortunately, the Cardinal has done more than speak out of turn; like the Protestant ministers who shouted loudly that police corruption is intolerable, he has helped to revive Boston's saddest and oldest religiously based controversy. The prelate and the policeman in his diocese can still remember when signs were hung announcing that "Drunken Irish need...
...doubt as to his opinion of it, Miller's tone is not one of bitter malice. He does not use his book as a revenge on the world; he is not reduced to cursing it in impotent rage. He is too much of a man for that; despite his disgust, he has not given up on life. There is still that which makes his existence worthwhile, and he would communicate it to the world, even if that world should hardly deserve the news...
Tropic of Cancer remains an extremely difficult book to fathom. The personality in back of it has unsounded depths. To even glance at them may get the reader lost in disgust or chaos. But Miller has written an apology as eloquent...
...been by sexual aberration (homosexuality is a major theme in each of his first three novels). One would like to think, as I suggested earlier, that this new novel was prompted by a need to escape the traditionalist critical niche. And yet it may well be that the violent disgust with modern Britain (he is disgusted, mind you, not angry) that Mr. Wilson expresses in The Old Men at the Zoo is entirely genuine, and not just a calculated shock to England's Aunt Ednas. If so, Mr. Wilson's usefulness as a social observer and his excellence...
...another race." But the destruction of one myth only created a more complex modern myth-that of the flawed, wounded hero on the order of Philoctetes, whose invincible bow was necessary for the winning of Troy, but whose wound so stank that men shrank from him in horror and disgust...