Word: beast
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LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Benjamin Butler-"The Beast"-was one of the Civil War's toughest Northern generals. A famed criminal lawyer in private life, he earned Southerners' undying hatred as the harsh but generally fair governor of occupied New Orleans, later became an impassioned champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction. Historian West succeeds admirably in separating an unusual man from the usually accepted Beast...
Author West, professor of history at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and a Southerner himself, was not attracted to Butler by hero worship. "I wanted to take on the meanest damned rascal I could find," West explains. But in sorting through the myths, West discovered that beneath the Beast's rapacious exterior dwelt a man of wit, large ideas and generous humanitarianism...
...looked like Ben Turpin in uniform: a massive head, topping out at 5 ft. 4 in., rimmed with wild auburn hair and set with droop-lidded eyes that flashed balefully in opposite directions. He was called "the Beast," and "Old Cockeye"-though rarely to his face. For Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the Civil War's toughest and most hated Northern generals...
...Beast Butler was too far ahead of his time, concludes West. Uncompromising in his "liberalism," he broke with the Republicans in 1884 to run for President as the candidate of a coalition known as the "People's Party." Though he campaigned with a verve and color reminiscent of Daniel Webster, his reputation-deserved or undeserved-had caught up with him. He polled only 175,000 votes of the 10 million cast in an election that went narrowly to Democrat Grover Cleveland. When Butler died in 1893, at the age of 74, Charles Dana of the New York Sun wrote...
...reins of the San Francisco Ballet from his eldest brother William, who had headed the company for a decade. In all, Lew has created some 70 original ballets, including the frolicsome Con Amore, Jest of Cards, one of dance's most dashing spectacles, and Beauty and the Beast, an exercise in controlled romanticism...