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...Public Health Service and the Massachusetts Department of Health are keeping an eye out for the newcomer as a potential health hazard. Meanwhile staff members at the Museum will study its life history and habits in the hope of finding ways to exterminate the beast...
From the moment that Israeli agents in Argentina flashed home the coded message 19 months ago, "The beast is in chains," there has been no doubt over the verdict in the case of Adolf Eichmann. Last week, as a chill rain fell on the deserted streets outside Jerusalem's Beit Haam (House of the People), the three Israeli judges returned to the courtroom in which, for four months, they heard 1,350,000 words of testimony. The crowd expected to hear first a detailed, legalistic defense of Israel's right to try Eichmann. Instead, Presiding Judge Moshe Landau...
...that greatest of sins against artistic sophistication. Another is the honest awareness of serious men that the cavalry rarely does charge into ordinary lives. One might suspect that Schwartz and his colleagues had all been invited to tea by John Marcher-the hero of Henry James's The Beast in the Jungle, whose distinguishing mark was that nothing ever happened to him-and that halfway through someone had slammed the door closed, leaving the quarterly writers locked inside...
...afternoon, the Brown bear took a beating at the game. That thoughtless, blundering beast first dared to tangle with the battle-tested prop crew of the Harvard Band, and then it made an ill-advised tour of the Crimson stauds...
...playwrights, in deference to the public's preference for normality, seem to be writing about heterosexuals, but do so in a homosexual way. In such plays, he writes, the female is frequently "a fantastically consuming monster or an incredibly pathetic drab." and the male is "a ragingly lustful beast or a limp, handsome, neutral creature of otherworldly purity." The homosexual's view of human relations distorts normal man-woman situations, and "the audience senses rot at the drama's core...