Word: bestiality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...