Word: barbarian
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...humans to be carnivorous is unnatural and simply barbarian. Our gastrointestinal tract is that of herbivora and fruitarians...
...open her decayed ancestral fief, Helmut marries the heiress, though he and his bride aspire only to sexual bliss with Conrad. Conrad himself mercy awaits the chance to murder the heiress and her parents, to propel him openly into prominence and wealth as savior of the Ornstein dynasty. Barbarian blood, as the old historical axiom goes, refreshes the withered, in-bred stock of effete aristocrats. In fairy-tale fashion, all who have survived live happily ever after...
Boorstin accuses the dissenters of rejecting experience for sensation. Yet the two aren't mutually exclusive. The opposite of sensation is non-sensation, and this is what the New Barbarian rejects. In a society which has imposed a model upon humanity, pursuit of sensory awareness is a search for humanity. Boorstin's New Barbarian (Perhaps we might call him the New American?) reacts to the vague but stifling conformity which Boorstin describes so well...
...final poem, "Prologue at Sixty." Now beginning to listen to thoughts of his own death "like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," the poet remains stubbornly tentative to the end. Part prayer, part history lesson, "Sixty" links Auden in his Austrian retreat to the Northern barbarian races-with whom Auden has always been conscious of kinship-and the long sweep of European history. "Turks have been here, Boney's legions,/ Germans, Russians, and no joy they brought." The medium through which such awareness flows is the aging poet full of misgivings and reminiscences: "My numinous...
...honor him as it had honored Monroe when he visited Boston. John Quincy Adams, a Harvard Overseer, did not take part in the confirmation vote, and he later wrote in his diary that it was a disgrace to confer the University's "highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name...