Word: bestial
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...unloosing a succession of farcically indecent pranks. The result is about equally crude and complicated in its bawdiness, is both wildly improbable and somehow too close for comfort, is now dated in its assumption, now faded in its effects. But what Critic William Archer once called "the most bestial play in all literature" is still, of its own kind, one of the best. To its exhaustive display of lust it brings an often matching demonstration of lustiness. Nor did Wycherley write it only to amuse or titillate; even as it leers, it looks people up and down, even...
...beast." said the local court in the dispassionate tones of bewigged British justice, "appears to be a human being who has been brought up to kill on the orders of those in charge of him, and to kill with bestial ferocity. While employed in its inhuman task, the creature disguises itself in the skin of a lion, or partly in lion skins and partly in baboon skins...
TIBOR DONATH is a portrait of the kind of Hungarian who became-under Russian tutelage-a career torturer for the AVO. It is a gruesome caricature of human nature at its most bestial; yet step by step, Reporter Michener has made the incredible monster a believable horror. The unprintable acts attributed by witnesses to Donath lead Michener to quote with approval the verdict of "one of America's finest and gentlest newspapermen," who said: "I was in Budapest at the time and although I believe that revengeful death accomplishes little, I devoutly believe that the human race would have...
...with dreams of greatness, independence and institutionalism for his paper. To further this lofty and noble purpose, he hires Herblock to defame the President as a perplexed boob, the Secretary of State as a smug humbler, the Defense Secretary as a predatory capitalist and the Vice President as a bestial figure crawling out of the sewer...
...Nixon efforts, largely aimed at Nixon's use of the subversion issue as a political weapon, Graham has had to restrain Herblock. In his Republican gallery (Ike as a perplexed boob; Dulles, a smug bumbler; Wilson, a predatory capitalist), the cartoonist began drawing Nixon as a heavily stubbled, bestial figure resembling the famous Herblock caricature of Joe McCarthy. Graham sternly ordered Herblock to shave the Vice President. "Nixon is not McCarthy," he scolded, "no matter what else you may think...