Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social and moral dilemma. For hundreds of years men had lived and died in a world in which "order [was] behind everything." Man, animals, the heavens were set in fixed categories, hardly ever questioned. In this "order" man was seen as below the angels but above the beasts. Kings were divinely appointed; they might be assassinated, but no one suggested that kingship itself should be abolished. Man was made to worship God, but all else was made to serve man, and would do so as long as man did not give way to his passions and, by becoming a beast...
...pillared firmament. Copernicus proclaimed that the sun, not the earth, was the center around which the planets were set. Montaigne described man as a "miserable and puny creature" for whom the universe cared nothing and who was "only another animal." Niccolo Machiavelli not only saw man as a cunning beast but insisted that the royal ruler of men must be a super-beast, without moral scruples in his control of the state and in his relations with other nations. As a final blow, England had broken away from the religious sovereignty of the Pope and established a national religion...
...Jefferson (Raymond Edward Johnson), Hamilton's encouragement of a plutocracy and hatred for "that great beast, the people," spelled the ruin of every hope and paved the way for monarchy. To Hamilton (House Jameson), Jefferson's French-Revolutionary libertarianism furnished a basis for the gravest fears and paved the way for anarchy. Neither man was as extreme as the other thought him; but they signified, truly enough, the eternal antagonism between order and progress...
...also beast of having the best kicker on the squad. He is Wally Flynn, an Arlington boy, who is not yet up to the first team defensively, but who will definitely be used when the Crimson gets into tight places...
...torment Russia lashed out on the Moscow front like a wounded giant beating a beast that gnaws his vitals. Stalingrad's peril was so great that distraction was necessary. For the desperate offensive, handsome, hard-eyed General Georgy Zhukov chose the Rzhev region, where the German lines bent within 130 miles of Moscow. One morning, early in August, deep-throated Soviet artillery opened up in the birchwood and meadow land around Rzhev. It concentrated first on Nazi battery positions, then on German division headquarters, finally on communications and transport centers. Ground-strafing Stormoviks joined the fray, followed by waves...