Word: beastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mean by that, Mrs. Sprague?" bears directly on this issue. The lady fears sex. She sees all men as potentially sexual creatures, and confuses this fear with the rabbits who so flagrantly violate her moral standards. The psychiatrist himself becomes a rabbit, for he shares with the beast the secret of sex. He speaks the dark words men hope to hear yet fear to utter. The fear of self-knowledge which inhibits Americans renders the successor of Freud a figure of subconscious sexual dislike--hence a rabbit...
...waxy wax that spells relax"). The action unfolds to the accompaniment of some thunderous cliches: "You remind me of someone I knew long, long ago"; "Love is just the most important thing that can happen to a person"; "Beneath that smiling mask stands the soul of a beast." For this pastiche Composer Moore (The Devil and Daniel Webster, Giants in the Earth) wrote a score that is alternately jazzy and sugary, but that in itself every so often sounds embarrassingly "sincere." While the nurse administers the ether, she bends over her patient-lover and croons a melting lullaby ("Sleep...
...equally common and deadly, have been tamed. Part of it is that physicians, surgeons and hospital staffs have become too confident: relying on their antibiotics, they are careless about general cleanliness and even surgical asepsis (TIME, April 1). But most of the trouble is in the nature of the beast itself: Staphylococcus aureus has the greatest capacity of any known disease germ for developing strains that are resistant to one antibiotic after another...
...Sentimental Beast." At the end of 1940, The Cat and her Polish "Toto" slipped over the border of Vichy France into German-occupied Paris. Within a few months their espionage network, named "Inter-Allied," included some 200 agents who kept up steady radio and courier communication with London, fed British intelligence information about German troop concentrations, barracks, antiaircraft defenses, etc. British agents came to cherish the familiar coded words on the wireless: "To Room 55a, War Office, London: The Cat reports...
...course I realised that it was out of the question 'or me to stay in a place like that. Why. the water-closet smelled quite abominably." Next morning she became a German agent; that very night she became Bleicher's mistress. "[He was a] most disgusting sentimental beast," she remarked .ater...