Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight were the words behind the pictures, the prose of Churchill spoken in the Elizabethan voice of Actor Richard Burton, an apt combination that gives The Valiant Years the ring of a historical drama, whether describing prewar England as a "fat, valuable cow tied up to attract the beast of prey" or Hitler as a "bloodthirsty guttersnipe" who would be "sponged and purged and blasted from the surface of the earth...
...merely delayed. Two months later it becomes apparent to the village doctor that every Midwich woman of fertile years is pregnant-apparently without the assistance of a man. What, the village wonders, was responsible for the mysterious impersonal rape of Midwich. for this ominous plural parthenogenesis? What great beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Midwich to be born...
...believe in Heaven, so you begin to believe in heaven on earth." Hulme insisted that the logical extension of romanticism in politics was the idea of liberal progressive democracy. Politically, classicism called for order, tradition and authority. Hulme agreed with Aristotle that "only a god or a beast could live outside the State...
Known at Yale as "O.K.," Utah-born Sociologist Moore, 40, launched his experiment as a result of recent ferment among behavioral scientists, who no longer see man and beast as motivated mainly by the "primary" drives of hunger, thirst and sex. Another major motivation, the scientists now argue, is a "competence" drive-the appetite to master complex relationships that is the apparent basis of problem solving. Moore's special interest is the problem in which the seeker has . no rules or fixed goals to guide him. Most notable example: the mystery of how children learn to speak their...
...children and those of the neighbors maintain an innocent bedlam. To escape it, Updike works in a room "in a sort of slum" in the center of town, is "sufficiently Protestant about trying to work every day." He admits that advance readers see his Rabbit "as a kind of beast, almost a satiric creation," but he denies being a satirist and refuses to take sides for or against his character. Is Rabbit a common American type? In some ways, says Updike, but "I don't really know about the youth of today or any other day. If the book...