Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could convince suspicious Frenchmen that the deaths were not caused by third-degree tactics. Paris has also gotten a little tired of the overzealous use of submachine guns issued during the past Algerian terrorist outbreaks. When a panther escaped from a circus, a flic mistook a shadow for the beast and in error plugged a passerby. Another ludicrously chopped up a cow, broken loose from a slaughterhouse, with his tommy...
...fact was, as Beaverbrook tells the story. "Lloyd George was a Prime Minister without a party." His own Liberal Party was split into warring factions. Severe unemployment at home and violent disagreements over foreign policy had frayed the Liberals' uneasy coalition with the Conservatives. "The Big Beast of the Forest," as his ministers called the fiery Welshman, could even then have broken off the coalition, reunited the Liberals in opposition, and almost certainly returned to office within a few years. But Lloyd George was incapable of surrendering power. "He did not seem to care which way he traveled," writes...
...only to resign four years later. Ailing and self-effacing, Law was a reluctant matador. But by suasion and sly pressure, Beaverbrook finally maneuvered his hero into the famed Carlton Club meeting at which Law captained a revolt of Tory M.P.s that dissolved the coalition and toppled the Big Beast. Though Law won the election, he was Prime Minister for only seven months-and confounded his eminence grise by rejecting Beaverbrook's vision of imperial Utopia...
George Wald, professor of Biology, wrote in the report on the Visual Arts at Harvard (the Brown Report of 1956), that "what divides man from the beast is knowing and creating." He pointed out that "it is man in his aspect of knowing that we find enshrined in the university...
Sanjuro, a sequel to Yojimbo, was made to make money, and it did. But in titillating the mass audience, Kurosawa evidently bored himself. In Yojimbo, he had an urgent idea: man is a beast and the world is better off without him. In Sanjuro, he confesses, "I had very little to say." He says it with impressive skill. Moviegoers who missed Yojimbo will assuredly find Sanjuro a bloody good show...