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Claudia is made to exclaim: "The people is blind. It loves and hates without discernment. It sacrifices its victims only to mourn and adore them when the hour of bestial fanaticism has ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Grande Romanzo | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...children she turns sculptress and newspaper correspondent, following the scantest lead to new quarry. Mussolini's large feet she found grotesquely absurd, his shuffling step that of a defiant child rather than a decisive man. She made his first sitting the last because his conduct was "bestial," "unwritable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scant Leads | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Down at the house, Morhead returns, made more bestial by War. The women are drawn to the God, "the black maypole," on the mountain, which now is scourged to the north by fire from the camps. Natalia smothers her child to preserve its innocence. April, informed with her dead brother's spirit, smuggles out a pistol to kill her father but quails at sight of him, shoots herself instead. He roams back into the burnt hills, fasting, escaped from human automatisms, inexhaustible, thirsting to create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: VERSE | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Said Chancellor Churchill to Fascists: "If I had been an Italian I am sure I would have been wholeheartedly from start to finish with Fascismo's triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madcap Chancellor | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...right to Gibbons' jaw. The St. Paul Phantom who had never* been knocked off his feet in the prize ring, fell down on the back of his head. The arm of the referee made accents in the air. Tunney stood bulging his muscles, striving vainly to appear bestial. At the seventh strophe, Gibbons rose. A polo player at the ringside whispered to his lady: "He looks like Lazarus." Young Tunney again advanced his right fist. Gibbons twisted his torso with a curious jerk, sat down, bewildered, like a man overtaken by exhaustion. The referee counted ten. After the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tunney vs. Gibbons | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

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