Word: bestial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restive crowds on the perimeter. On Khrushchev's first night in town, knots of Hungarian and Polish refugees gathered with banners that screamed KHRUSHCHEV IS A MURDERER, KHRUSHCHEV, GO HOME, and handed out pamphlets with such arresting titles as Nikita, Scat, You Dirty Aggressor, You Bloodstained Butcher, You Bestial Executioner, Scat. Cries of "Butcher!" and "Murderer!" rattled the accustomed tranquillity of Park Avenue...
...documented Russian tradition of rape and rapine. I am sure some of your readers must recall the Russian performance in Vienna and Berlin in 1945 when no woman from eight to 80 was safe from those heroic socialistic soldiers of Soviet Russia. No army in modern history committed their bestial crimes against women, with the possible exception of the Japanese in Nanking...
Beauty & the Bestial. The swan-dappled Avon may have been the Styx to a London actor, but the best touring companies played in Stratford. Englamoured by them, Shakespeare, some time around 1587, left for the big town and joined an acting company. As actor and playwright, Will was a quick study...
...came the snarls of mastiffs as they leaped at the throat of Harry Hunks, a chained bear that snapped at them with his sawed-down teeth and clawed some into bloody silence. This was the competition for Romeo and Juliet. No one sensed the paradox of beauty and the bestial more keenly than Shakespeare...
Rhinoceritis, implies lonesco, is the most communicable disease of the 20th century: under the pressures of mass-think, man loses his individuality and is driven to joining the bestial herd. Many characters protest the change, but relentlessly their skins thicken and wrinkle, their voices become grunts, and great ski-jump tusks appear on their faces. "We must resist rhinocerization at any cost," cry the seemingly unafflicted, but already they start, rhino-like, to munch odd bits of paper, ivy leaves, potted plants...