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...warnings, there are still a few hundred unfortunate run-ins each year with the bears that roam the parks. Animal lovers simply do not believe that it is dangerous to feed the bears, often forget that leaving food or candy in a tent is an outright invitation to any beast within sniffing distance. Trouble is, they look so cute, and they seem to be smiling a happy welcome to visitors-but too few campers realize that a bear hardly ever smiles: he just looks that way all the time, even when he is rummaging through a garbage can or swatting...
Like a dumb beast in a show...
...better than a beast...
...what rough beast, its hour come round at last...
...extinct layman. This new figure, as one might have suspected, is "the fledgling scholar deserving a wider audience for his best work than simply the brilliant grader--in a word, the Harvard undergraduate." One would not have anticipated, however, the ugly name the Journal slaps on this new beast: "the intelligent specialist non-specialist." Small wonder that these beings have lapsed into scholarspeak--no doubt out of sheer ontological terror...