Word: minstrell
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...Toole, represents a particularly cretinous kind of intellectual masochism. We are meant to believe that Friday's tribe of cannibals represents some grander order of cultural purity free, one supposes, from the debauching influences of conscience and thought. These cannibals, however, would be at home in a minstrel show: they chuckle over the white man's antics, flash long rows of gleaming teeth and pass a great deal of time either sitting around the campfire or singing about the funny ways of the palm tree. For the mentality behind Man Friday, this may indeed represent a higher form...
...place. I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down to a matteg of memory. They are more to be spoken than to be read. I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener...
...magazine took that epigram seriously. Through the Depression and even through the war, Harold Ross, the magazine's legendary founder, preferred not to confront moral issues. "His old dread," recalled the owlish humorist James Thurber, "that the once carefree New Yorker, going nowhere blithely, like a wandering minstrel, was likely to become rigidly 'grim,' afflicted his waking hours and his dreams...
Peter Durgerian, catalyst of capers and part-time harmonica minstrel is largely responsible for the team's indignance with the institution of basketball...
...harder, more visionary effort in the Oval Office, and then a public rhetoric that matches in level the intelligence and awareness of the American people. The amount of time and energy required for such study and analysis of the array of problems now before the President precludes the old minstrel style of politics...