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At the ballet's close they follow Eva, her charisma intact, as she is banished from this unforgiving, repressively puritanical sect. A product of southern racism and an often repressively conservative religious upbringing, Wright represents himself as dutifully remorseful for his necessary "lapse into immorality," but even in his humility, he echoes his predecessors by pointing out (however defensive such a stance now seems) that blacks are not inherently deviant. Pinochet is the man who has pronounced Franco to be his hero (though Napoleon is a close second), who sees himself as continuing the caudillo's special mixture of repressively conservative Catholicism with a modernizing capitalist mentality, who in his vanity has declared that, like Franco, he saved the world itself from communism. |
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