Word: subhumanity
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...most engrossing--and most gross--of the characters in The Tempest is Prospero's "savage and deformed slave" Caliban, the subhuman offspring of a witch and a devil. It is incorrect to regard Ariel and Caliban as polarities. They are undeniably contrasted; but they also share a number of traits, such as distaste for physical labor, a yearning for freedom, a delight in pranks, a love of nature, an appreciation of music, and a fear of their master. Ariel has some coarse language and Caliban some ethereal lines...
...addiction of Willie B., the Atlanta gorilla [Jan. 22], should not surprise us. It merely lends credence to the widely held belief that television producers have lowered the intellectual content of their programming to the subhuman level...
Though a bullet killed Fred Cowan, it was his extreme prejudice that really did him in. One wonders how those on Cowan's subhuman level can survive without killing somebody. Cowan could not. Maybe all bigots should realize this...
...lessons, what a poseur Ensor was! Every Christ he painted is trivialized by his narcissistic equation of the suffering God and the rejected artist. It is customary, at least in Belgium, to see Ensor as a man of the people. But Ensor's waterfront lumpenproletariat look just as subhuman as his judges and police officers. As a political artist, he was both strident and unfocused. The Good Judges, 1891, is a curdled parody of Daumier, without the master's swift economy of feeling. It is impossible to tell what Ensor thought about politics, except that...
...sickened by Ernie Holmes' description of his calf slaughtering. If he wants to act like a subhuman, why doesn't he save it for the playing field and the other beings who've chosen to be there with...