Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Chambers finished his direct testimony a deadly cross-examination began. Defense Attorney Stryker leaped out of his chair at the moment the prosecutor sat down and advanced on the witness like a man about to kill a wild beast with his hands. Within minutes, Chambers had coolly admitted taking "a false and perjurous" oath in getting a Government job back in 1937. From then on, hour after hour, Stryker labored hard to wreck the witness' credibility...
...with the ghost of a woman he has never met; two old maids gain a sense of vicarious lawlessness from the ghost of an ancestor who was a smuggler; a woman abandons her fiance to the ghost of a woman he has never known. The best of them, The Beast in the Jungle, is a harrowing portrait of a man who waits all his life for a great experience and then, realizing that his fate is to be one man to whom absolutely nothing happens, throws himself on the tomb of the woman whose love he did not return...
Ever since war's end, Konni Zilliacus had been zooming and buzzing around the Labor government's left flank like a gnat harassing an elephant. Several times, the great beast had flapped its ears in protest. Last week it hauled off with its trunk and struck. Konni Zilliacus, M.P. for Gateshead, longtime Fabian and fellow traveler, was formally read out of the Labor Party...
...instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy and British imperialists, who were "whipping up a holy war" against communism. The pact, Wallace said, would turn Russia "into a wild and desperate cornered beast...
Even Caliban, the character credited with representing man's base instincts, is translated "optimistically." As excellently played by Robert Fletcher, the deformed beast becomes neither repulsive nor depressing. His Caliban would be at home in Alice's Wonderland, or in any child's wonderland, for that matter. Though humorous throughout, Mr. Fletcher does not cheapen his character with the low comedy possibilities offered him. He is grotesque, yet wholesome; funny, but still moving and touching when need...