Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this trip, he tells himself, I am going to bag one enchantress for the zoo and the other one for myself. But before he can bag one for the zoo he must flush the elusive beast; and before he can bag the other one for himself he must somehow elude the vigilance of her mate (Jack Hawkins), another great white hunter and a mean old man besides. "Every animal," he snarls, "is entitled to kill in order to keep what belongs...
...against dope addiction. At moments he could be as sentimental as any Piaf song, which is why it was difficult to take him seriously as a poet of evil. Yet guardians of public morality damned his books (Les Parents Terribles), plays (The Infernal Machine), and films (Beauty and the Beast) as immoral and unhealthy...
...every act, a man or beast does well something that he or it has no right to be able to do at all. One man juggles eight rings while a woman balances one-handed on his head, rotating a long cylinder with her feet; another somersaults at least twenty feet in the air from a spring board--on stilts; a company of bears roars around the ring on motorcycles. Several acts feature acrobats whose precision, co-ordination and agility defy belief...
...book concerns a group of English boys who revert to savagery when wrecked on a desert island. Civilization, Golding emphasizes, has thinly veiled, but not destroyed, the beast within us. The novel succeeds both as adventure and as allegory...
Hugh Edwards' portrayal of Piggy as a plodding unwanted little boy is realistic in every gesture and expression. Despite a few awkward movements, Tom Chapin presents a realistic Jack (the bully who becomes a beast). The part of Ralph--the nice, normal boy -- offers fewer striking characteristics; James Aubrey is, however, a believably nice, normal boy. Although a little of their ad libbing seems forced, the crowd of boys generally reacts realistically...