Word: beasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After eight months she filed for divorce, but changed her mind. Admitted Brown: "I don't know why she took me back, because I'm a beast. I bought a monkey as a pet and the mon ey bit her. I pulled the phone out by the roots . . . pushed her in the swimming pool . . . turned the fire hose on her friends...
Then came the ferocious, just lamented mascot and last in line is today's regal beast...
...repelled and nauseated ... by such horrors as: The Great Beast, by J. Symonds; The Illusionist, F. Mallet; The Skin, C. Malaparte. Please, please let the mud remain where it belongs. Don't even mention them in your fine periodical...
Your review of John Symonds' The Great Beast was beastly . . . Aleister Crowley was an accomplished poet, a mountain climber of some ability, and an oddity whose biography should engage the attention of anyone interested in the vagaries of the human race...
...last years, he was a shadow of a man, half-crazy and exhausted by drugs and debauchery, and his wickedness had degenerated into absurdity. But he still had a few followers. He was cremated at Brighton. Over his beflowered coffin a disciple loudly chanted The Beast's erotic Hymn to Pan. The chairman of Brighton's crematorium committee was not impressed by the innovation. Said he, perhaps unconsciously voicing the thoughts of a generation of Englishmen: "We shall take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident occurring again...