Word: beastly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact was, as Beaverbrook tells the story. "Lloyd George was a Prime Minister without a party." His own Liberal Party was split into warring factions. Severe unemployment at home and violent disagreements over foreign policy had frayed the Liberals' uneasy coalition with the Conservatives. "The Big Beast of the Forest," as his ministers called the fiery Welshman, could even then have broken off the coalition, reunited the Liberals in opposition, and almost certainly returned to office within a few years. But Lloyd George was incapable of surrendering power. "He did not seem to care which way he traveled," writes...
George Wald, professor of Biology, wrote in the report on the Visual Arts at Harvard (the Brown Report of 1956), that "what divides man from the beast is knowing and creating." He pointed out that "it is man in his aspect of knowing that we find enshrined in the university...
...wonder that Newhall has room even for that sort of news. At last count, the Chronicle was carrying no fewer than 53 columnists, ranging downward from Walter Lippmann to Count Marco, a no-count native of Pittsburgh whose real name is Marco Spinelli. In "Beauty and the Beast," Marco offers advice to females, mostly matrons interested in getting their husbands interested again, and once recommended: "Take a bath with your husband. . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over." Newest addition to the growing throng is Society Columnist Frances Moffatt, who after...
...less than 90 minutes the film poses its universal question: How could a sensible people like the Germans be fooled by a fox? A quotation from Ecclesiastes is offered as the answer: "Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth...
Sanjuro, a sequel to Yojimbo, was made to make money, and it did. But in titillating the mass audience, Kurosawa evidently bored himself. In Yojimbo, he had an urgent idea: man is a beast and the world is better off without him. In Sanjuro, he confesses, "I had very little to say." He says it with impressive skill. Moviegoers who missed Yojimbo will assuredly find Sanjuro a bloody good show...