Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motif of the show is the easy interplay between man and beast, myth and daily life. The winged bulls and lions on vases and breastplates represent totemic alliances by which ancient man sought to acquire the power of the strongest beasts to fend off the evil forces around him. But in their arresting regality, these beasts bear themselves like demigods, not mere-animals...
...book of poems in one hand and a Lowestoft jar in the other. "Don't worry," she reassures herself. "This can't last more than a few minutes." But it does. It lasts all day, a day of wrath that changes a cultured woman into a caged beast and adds Olivia de Havilland, now 47, to the list of cinemactresses (Bette Davis, Joan Crawford) who would apparently rather be freaks than be forgotten...
...dead comrade who once saved her life, and finally becomes a dread Kapo-"head" or trusty-who assumes guard duties, wielding a rubber truncheon against fellow inmates. This unsympathetic behavior nearly amounts to a forceful statement about the corruption of human values under stress, except that the beast in Actress Strasberg is patently far too tame. Cast as a bossy, driving turn-cat, she somehow remains pensive and soulful-eyed, falls predictably in love with a handsome P.W., and dies heroically just as Soviet guns begin to boom beyond the surrounding hills...
Describing the average undergraduate as "dedicated to his own capabilities, seeking autonomy, and yet stubborn, capricious and unsure of his role at the Loeb," Seltzer cited the difficulties of running the center which he called an "anomolous beast...
...nicknamed, according to one account, because he once met a lion, frightened the beast into retreating by staring it down...