Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure to understand them. But in their poetry-if not in their U.N. speeches-Africans waste surprisingly little time inveighing against imperialism, notwithstanding a tirade by a part-time poet named Patrice Lumumba, the late, rabblerousing Congolese leader ("For a thousand years, you, African, suffered like a beast...
...deliver a 100-megaton warhead." As to that, some U.S. scientists and military leaders disagree with McNamara, believe that the 100-megaton giant, weighing between 20,000 and 30,000 Ibs., could already be hung on the end of the Soviets' gigantic Vos-tok-launching rocket, nicknamed "The Beast" by U.S. intelligence agents, and fired with reasonable accuracy over 3,500 miles...
Jack, a crafty bully, stalks away in a sulk one afternoon, and most of the boys desert Ralph and Piggy to follow him and put on face paint, dance around fires and feast on roast pig. The new savages deify the beast that is supposed to haunt the mountaintop; as an offering to the terrible thing, a pig's head is struck on a sharpened stick and left in the woods. Readers of Golding's novel know the nature of the beast before the boys do; the movie audience is kept in witless suspense until it is revealed...
Little Simon, creeping away from the others, discovers the corpse and in the book's most terrifying and significant passage he encounters the pig's fly-infested head on the stick. In a delirium he hears it speak. "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill. I'm the Beast. You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are? Come now," said the Lord of the Flies. "Get back...
...film he hears no voice, there is no revelation of Beelzebub; indeed, the title is left unexplained. Simon simply sees a pig's head on a stick. The orgy at the fireside ("Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!") has swept the boys into frenzy. As Simon scrambles out of the woods, they fall upon him and, making him surrogate for the beast, kill him. A brief and poignant scene follows: in the warm cradle of the surf Simon's small body is rocked to and fro, swaddled in a glimmer of phosphorus until...