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...study in slow motion. The burgomaster is "phlegm personified." Conversations are punctuated by extended periods of silence. It is a town, says one man, "where there has not been the shadow of a discussion for a century, where the cartmen do not swear, where the coachmen do not insult each other, where horses do not run away, where the dogs do not bite, where the cats do not scratch." For lovers to marry before they have courted languorously for ten years is a scandal...
...always been frightening to write on any card that you happen to want book ALA 1952.293.2, but the new cards added insult to injury. As if the whole thing were a big in-group joke, a little box in the lower right-hand corner of the card instructed DO NOT WRITE BELOW, and followed this command with an enigmatic...
...African critics take Schweitzer's insistence on primitiveness as an insult, or a needless prolongation of "the white man's burden." Symbolically, they point out, he and his staff still wear pith helmets. The concept that the Dark Continent can make more progress through independence is, to Schweitzer, folly. Told that the Peace Corps is building primary schools all over Gabon, and that the little country has 14 medical students training in France, Dr. Schweitzer merely chuckles and says of the blacks: "You cannot change their mentality." Among his six doctors and 17 nurses, there...
...essentially dull. Genet's conception of the entire world as a brothel may have shocked Broadway critics four years ago. But the idea seems pretty tame now. When Shelley Winters explains this Weltanschauung in the movie's fade, for the benefit of the slow-witted, she adds a powerful insult to a rather mild injury. As for sensuous aspects, devotees of this limited segment of cinema art had better stick to Washington Street. There is nothing in The Balcony that could overly disturb a Puritan Sunday picnic...
...demoralized status in society. As far as I am concerned, and perhaps other Negroes as well (though I accept Riesman's point in a recent letter to Commentary that in such discussions as this it is perhaps best to speak for oneself) this is a pathetic addition of insult to an already gross injury...