protrusive

If Bleistein is thinking of racism back home in America, he might be thinking of Walt Witman's racistic Salut au Monde (12): " You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, groveling, seeking your food! / You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese! / You haggard, uncouth, untutor'd Bedowee! / You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!" In "Dirge," Eliot refers also to Graves' disease, of which protrusive eyes was a symptom.

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