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...book's impatient thesis is that man ignorantly keeps trying to make a monkey out of the poor beast. "Apes," the Morrises write, "have been eaten, worshipped, hunted, hated, loved, mocked, feared, persecuted, protected, shot into space, featured on television, infected with syphilis and trained to collect flowers...
Come off it, lads. A rat's a rat, and hanging a blue ribbon on the beast won't turn him into a prize Pomeranian...
...Supreme Court undeniably functions as a political beast at times, stepping only so far as the climate will permit. Such considerations have been the major factor in stalling a decision on HUAC's constitutionality since one was first sought fifteen years ago. Also the present investigation -- in which an actual piece of legislation is involved for a change -- is not the best for the ACLU's purposes...
...nerve. Once wounded, Miguelin begins to suffer from dreams and fantasies of death. The camera, which before had recorded the full spectacle of the bull-fight from a discreet distance, focuses directly on Miguelin and the bull as, for the first time, he realizes that he and the beast are alone in the ring...
...devil] or anyone else." While Barth seems to be crudely baiting religion, he is actually enunciating his concern with the theological conception of the hypostatic nature of Christ-that Christ was both fully human and fully divine. Goat-Boy's Vergil on his pilgrimage is Stoker, a cynical beast of burden who may be in league with the devil and whose slogan is: "Never mind the question! The answer's Power...