Word: bestial
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...rural box office, industrial interests, and Mussolini. With such a great amount of vitality drained from the original play, the movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess Mcredith's radical Quillery suffers especially from this limitation; Edward Arnold as the munition manufacturer is a bestial villain--which was certainly not Sherwood's intention in writing the play. Even the essential structure of the plot itself has been changed to suit movie audiences;--the pathetic attempt to tack a happy ending on a basically tragic plot detracts greatly from the dramatic force of the play...
...have seen free countries deteriorate into dictatorships ruled by the heavy hand of voodoo high priests. ... To seek a true comparison it is necessary to go back into that period of history when man was unlettered, benighted and bestial...
...faith in the fundamental goodness of human nature is destroyed by the bestial persecutions of the Nazi regime, then it is restored again by the spontaneous upsurge of sympathy for the persecuted in other parts of the world. Harvard has been a part of this humanitarian wave, and here the sympathy seeks to express itself not only in protests but in active efforts to alleviate the conditions of the sufferers...
Exclaimed Le Populaire, newsorgan of the French Socialist Party and Vice Premier Leon Blum who last year became the first Socialist Premier of France and is soon to visit the White House: "It is the conscience of the civilized world which has answered bestial ferocity." Without designating any particular country, his words are sufficiently explicit so that in them may be recognized condemnation of the invasion of Manchuria, the assassination of [Chancellor] Dollfuss [of Austria], the Italian aggression in Ethiopia, the foreign intervention in Spain, Japanese aggression in China, the bombardment of open cities and massacre of working populations...
Until yesterday we didn't think so. But today we do. For the undergraduates, judging by what we've heard, have sunk to a state of bestial oblivion as far as the bard is concerned, and Harvard Hall, despite the English department's effect to fill in the gap, is cold,-bare ruined choirs where late the sweet bird sang...