Word: beastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scottish veterinary student from the University of Edinburgh was one of the first to interest the world in Nessie. He was riding home on his motorbike along the shores of a lake in the Inverness Highlands on a moonlit winter night in 1934 when he saw the beast. "I was almost on it," said Arthur Grant later, "when a small head on a long neck turned in my direction, and the object, taking fright, made two great bounds, crossed the road and plunged into the lake...
...Natives. The best piece in the book is the title essay, a slender recollection of an incident during Orwell's days as a British constable in Burma. Orwell had been called out to shoot a tame elephant gone rogue. He did not really want to shoot the beast, but behind him stood a crowd of Burmans ready to jeer if the white man faltered. Since "a sahib has got to act like a sahib," Orwell pumped his bullets in the animal's hide, reflecting "that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys...
These two stuffed beasts set the theme of the Zoological Museum--the struggle between man and beast, and the survival of the fittest. It is something to shame men everywhere, and to frighten them too. For this struggle has not been a one-way persecution. Beasts, it seems, have harkened to the biblical injunction, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...
...course it will be a long time before black-and-white video becomes obsolete. Current sponsors will certainly be slow to switch their advertising to color shows that don't beast big audiences, and just like movies today, certain subjects will turn out better in black-and-white than in color. The black-and-white men have reason to fear that the FCC color decision will cut into the current boom in TV set sales; but they know black-and-white television will become a drab thing...
...piano playing could be a bore, particularly at parties where the hostess insists on "just an eensy-teensy bit. Oh, it's a pest. I will go to an affair and they will send some bewitching young thing to ask me to play and I'm a beast...