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...times have changed. "The Eve of today needs bigger and better leaves to catch the man of her wishes. She also needs instinct, feminine intelligence, and as sharp and observant an eye as any monkey or cat was ever born with." A considerable bank account helps, but Mrs. Guinness is not bothered by such trivia...
...introduction to modern society the Negro was technologically and culturally inferior, and this is the "monkey" with which he must deal, Kilson said. As a result, a cultural inferiority complex has become as integral part of being a Negro, he continued...
Pointing out that Jefferson kept slaves while writing the Bill of Rights, Kilson said the white man has always tried to "have his cake and eat it too." Liberals must be confronted with this deficiency, he said, before they can start helping the Negro to "get the monkey off his back...
...Nobody messed with Thelonious," he recalls, "but they used to call me 'Monkey,' and you know what a drag that was." His father returned to the South alone to recover from a long illness, leaving Monk's mother, a sternly correct civil servant, to work hard to give her three children a genteel polish. At eleven, Thelonious began weekly piano lessons at 75¢ an hour...
...other Goteborg papers reviewed the show. Wrote one: "Pierre Brassau paints with powerful strokes, but also with clear determination. His brush strokes twist with furious fastidiousness. Pierre is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer." One of the oils sold for $90. But not every monkey-hoax story ends with all the humans fooled. Wrote one of the critics, as the perceptive punch line of a harsh review: "Only an ape could have done this...