Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Damn, but I wish plays like this didn't make it so easy for us to laugh at homosexuals. Thankfully, Fortune and Men's Eyes is somewhat unique in this respect. It is more honest than the average minstrel show. Before it ends, it shows us a true hell where the whole world is a prison, where the homosexual must fight brutally so that he can stay...
...land there, he was a campesino. (Not a peasant, Womack insists, but a countryman--the revolutionaries of Morelos were independent farmers, no matter how pitifully small the plots they framed.) Because Zapata's forefathers had been leaders s in the village, and because he himself was known to be honest and loyal to them, in 1909 the villagers elected him president of Anenecuilco. It was a year of great difficulty for the villages: the Morelos sugar plantations were in the process of gobbling up what was left of land the villagers knew they held by rightful title. Like other local...
...less like the "Attila of the South" than like a poor village president who had been brought up before the bigwigs. He seemed to know that whatever the apparent outcome of the parley, the real chingado had already been determined. Eternal experience teaches the campesino at least this much: "honest" and "political" are antithetical words; a "conference" is the name of the place where the campesino gets screwed...
Nathan was aglow. He had just recently decided to get out in the streets and mix with "real" humanity. Right off the bat he gets an honest, seemingly intelligent, vicarious queer. He respected Scott...
Nathan lost his heart and found something to live for in one moment. He had someone he could count on being honest with him. He began to talk. Scott liked to listen and talk. Though he could not initiate things, he loved to put up with them. Pain, pleasure or, in this case, boredom. He might be able to help the guy too, he thought...