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...feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote but kindly cynicism their delirious reversion to the bestial. "Hogarthian," said the critics. "Horrible," said the quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In London | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...whole point of "Three Soldiers" is the negation of this. War gives scope to some virtues, but who is there who will defend the thesis that it calls out more of the good in man than the bad? To gain an end, it appeals to the bestial arid the savage. It exalts the "hard-boiled", physical courage which is by no means the most difficult and rare of the virtues. The animal world is full of it. But there are other values in life which war thwarts, chokes, and prevents. Have these no night to their day in court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATION | 10/19/1921 | See Source »

...survival from barbaric times, when early man first discovered that he was physically stronger than his mate. The passing by the Sixty-Sixth Congress of the proposed Nineteenth Amendment marks the final step in the breaking down of this age-old prejudice, based as it is upon the bestial and pre-Adamite assumption that might makes right. We therefore hail the approaching advent of equal suffrage for women, confident that it is an indispensably necessary step in the growth of American freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ADVENT OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE | 6/6/1919 | See Source »

...worse than brule; that bestial, idiot leer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALLEY OF THE VISP. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

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