Word: subhumanize
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When we read; for instance, that he thought Boston "a vast jumbled waste created by prehuman or subhuman monsters in a delirium of greed," we wonder what possibilities of contrast are left him if he should describe Europe's real "jumbled waste" cities. . . . For us, this "largest force lately to appear on the horizon of American letters" is a man to amuse a very prosperous culture which can still permit itself the undermining, disheartening, demoralizing effect of his kind of literature...
Miller's U.S. tour began in 1940, when he landed at Boston ("A vast jumbled waste created by prehuman or subhuman monsters in a delirium of greed. ... It was a bad beginning"). In New York City ("the most horrible place on God's earth"), Miller bought a car, drove through the Holland Tunnel ("that damned hole") on "the beginning of the endless nightmare...
...Asia, he said, "has sunk to subhuman depths of ferocity. Race antagonisms lie behind it. We are now creating a generation of American and Japanese youth seared with the brand of mutual hate and contempt." Invasion, bombing and unconditional surrender will be followed by the outlawry, duplicity and mutual suspicion which military occupation is bound to bring. And this may lead to a nationalistic government cool to foreign Christianity and firmly behind Japan's ancient and ingrained ancestor-emperor worship...
...infinitesimal black trunks . . . came from, the deserts of Australia to make his way by love, love alone; there was no stability in all this. . . . Some of the most indisputable nitwits in the contemporary world . . . dwelt in Maxine's house, week in and week out, carrying on their subhuman intrigues and complicated intramural arrangements...
Said the Smithsonian: Ainu women, properly dressed, could stroll unnoticed along any U.S. Main Street. Ainu men are hairy and large-headed, with faces strikingly like those of Leo Tolstoy, Alfred Tennyson, or Orson Welles. The almost beardless Japanese point to the Ainus' hirsuteness as evidence of subhuman status...