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Although Freyre claims natives were free to accept or discard Portuguese culture at will as it was presented to them, this was not, in fact, the case. The Portuguese conquerors subdued them with the sword, baptized them by force and divided them up among themselves as slaves. Intermarriage occurred because the conquerors brought no women with them. It is essential to realize that "Lusotropicalism" did not accept intermarriage between Portuguese women and Indians...
...given under the guise of constitutional guarantees to vilely depict perversions and sexual adventures as John Cleland saw fit 200 years ago. This is not the way to a better constitutional world; it is rather the path to decay and decline. The Constitution should not be the sword of the shameful profiteer of filth. It must be the shield to protect our sense of moral decency." Next testing station: the New Jersey Supreme Court, which will have to read Fanny all over...
Roustabout. Step right up, folks. It's a carnival, and here come the freaks. Way down there is the midget, way up there is "the tallest man in the world." Behind that bush stands the bearded lady and over in the cutlery department the sword-swallower is just about to show his guts. But say, what's that whatsit wriggling down the midway: that long damp thing with the pale-green skin and the pollywog eyes and the squirmy little mouth...
...pages. McGraw-Hill. $27.50. ARMS AND ARMOR by Vesey Norman. 128 pages. Putnam. $4.95. Who has not, at least in childhood, been fascinated by the medieval knight, his squire and yeoman, and the strange tools they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor...
Soon the timpani appeared for the first time. The kitchen staff walked into the dining room with dinner. Phil opened the window to let out the smell of chow mein and knocked Don Alfonso's sword off the window. One of the singers started and flubbed her line. Archie Epps hissed slightly...