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...mean I recognized the goddam kid right away. He's my Jewish-Indian literary cousin Joe Hosea, the one who got thrown out of prep school in Bombay because the phonies thought he was trying to burn down the school. A very big deal. I mean all he did was drop a match in a pile of wood shavings in the carpentry shed. Then my literary aunt and uncle packed him off to military school. Way off in the Himalayas, for Chrissake...
...bedbugs will have somebody to bite. Joe's a terrific liar, so you never know when he's kidding around. I mean he's a madman. Joe's always horsing around doing things like converting to Mohammedanism at the lousy military school up in the goddam mountains so he can sleep with his Muslim classmate's sister, who he's never even seen, for God's sake. I mean Joe's really alienated...
There's a lot of that Santha Rama Rau crud in the front of the book about old Joe's family and how they came to India from Poland or Lithuania and all. His mother is always telling Joe to tuck his goddam shirt in, but she's mostly wrapped up in all the swell work she's doing for the Bombay chapter of the Hadassah and worrying about her daughters marrying some Buddhist. His father-Sir Abraham for Chrissake-is a King's Counsel, a lawyer who's only interested in making money...
...that he was married to a high school principal, never discussed what he was doing during the eleven hours and more a day that he spent in his studio. One of the few painters who gained admission to his inner sanctum reported with awe, "There isn't a goddam brush in the place." Nonetheless, under his painting name of Morris Louis, Bernstein gained a reputation in Manhattan art circles. Since his death from lung cancer in 1962 at the age of 49, his repute has grown to major proportions...
...Courier reporters, humorous suggestions of that nature are less significant than the fact that whites are paying attention to the paper. Former Dallas Country Sheriff Jim Clark once cracked, "I don't see how one goddam Red newspaper can be so yellow." Later, he said that the Courier news columns had treated him fairly during his term of office...