Word: injuns
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...Hepburn women were often women apart, like the Green Mansions Bird Girl, quarantined in her aviary. Race was the improbable barrier in The Unforgiven, where she got a great tan to play Burt Lancaster's "l'il red-hide Injun," the pretty pelt in a sociological showdown...
...Mary Grace?s favorite attraction of the day was ?Tom Sawyer Island.? This was because, in Injun Joe?s Cave, she could scoot ahead and hide and then scare her daddy or mommy when them came around a curve. This she can do at home, for free. I don?t know where this fits into my roller-coaster-dynamics argument - go ask Malcolm Gladwell - but I?m sure it fits somewhere...
Andrew "The only good injun is a dead injun" Jackson: Directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent American Indians, Jackson was also personally charged with the murder of two British citizens (a charge not followed up by a pro-expansion Congress, prone to turning the other way if a morally unjust or even criminal act was perceived as good for the building of the American empire). Today Jackson could be tried for genocide, war crimes and double homicide...
...Across the Fence, is a creature of formula writing, whose intent may be simplification but whose consequence is too often mystification. That mystification is compounded by ethnic, religious, political and other groups that have lobbied their attitudes and taboos into texts. In Maryland, Tom Sawyer no longer says "honest injun." Just "honest." And the bland Watergate reference from McGraw-Hill's fifth-grade social-studies textbook United States is a result of the almost universal avoidance of controversy in textbooks...
...modern audiences don't really know anything about without they have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But, as Mark Twain also said, "that ain't no matter." What is the matter is that the good, strong stuff of the novel-Injun Joe's mysteriously sinister nature, the murder in the graveyard, Becky and Tom lost in the cave, even Huckleberry Finn's subversive restlessness-is truncated and flattened. The idea seems to be to avoid offending those modern-day Aunt Pollys and Widder Douglases who think, despite such recent...