Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closeups at the arena where the hero, his mouth pursed in a kiss of defiance, struts arrogantly before the bulls, finally coaxes his frothing and bloodied adversaries to die at his feet. Though Italian Director Francesco Rosi intends a social protest against a contest in which both man and beast are sacrificed to the mob, he instead brings forth a fi'm of brutal and paralyzing beauty, quickened with all the ancient, raging instincts that make a deadly art endure...
...contemporary America, however, the royal raptor has about the same status as a clay pigeon. With the cynical and inaccurate excuse that it is a men ace to both man and beast, the golden eagle has been poisoned, trapped, nest-robbed, and pursued in planes by hot-shots taking potshots until the North American variant of this noble species stands in imminent danger of extinction...
...American Radical as Type is still fair game for anyone who wants to write about American History without being blamed for it. He's an ideal beast to track, since any snare laid for him will yield something, if only a few toenails and a tuft of hair. The hunters can return to town with the news that he just got away, the assumption that there is such a composite creature secure and even vindicated. The Hofstadters and the Goldmans have all fiddled extensively with his natural and social environment, and it has remained for Christopher Lasch to lead...
...think the chase of the Questing Beast breaks down for lack of game, but the by-products of Mr. Lasch's journey are plentiful and fascinating. Given a thesis just vague enough to apply to anybody, we begin to realize that he's writing about, Americans, not just intellectuals; the pathological tone of earlier writings on the subject has disappeared, and a thoroughly entertaining act of scholarship has been committed...
...death." Another flash reveals the writer in the throes of creation, dipping his pen into his own blood: "Writing may have been a game in other ages. Today it is a grave duty, to proclaim a state of mobilization, to urge men to do their utmost to surpass the beast...