Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world lives in an evolving universe, says Ong, in which geological ages, over the course of some 5 billion years, follow "one after the other in a mysterious, but unmistakably patterned, sequence." In this evolution of the earth from "brute nature" toward more and more "homanization," technology is the latest phase. Thus any idea that technology is opposed to humanism is "unreal." On the contrary, technology "is a great and inspiring human creation." Instead of fighting technology, Christians should join it. "The cause of humanism is served by dealing with reality, not by denouncing...
...middle region, and there they wander about all their lives; as to passing above this limit, they have never even cast a look to the true upwards and never been there, never been filled with what really is or had a taste of pure and abiding pleasure. Like brute beasts, they look ever downwards, and feed stooping over the ground and poking their noses into their tables, cropping and coupling; and to get more and more of these things they kick and butt with iron horns and hooves and kill one another because of their insatiate desire, since they fail...
Sweat at the Oak Bole. In Treece's version, King Arthur becomes Artos the Bear, a barrel-chested brute with blue dye on his cheekbones.* He is plowing his father's fields with a brace of bulls when blind old Ambrosius, one of the last of the Roman legionaries, by title the Count of Britain, stumbles upon him. By the old man's side walks Medrodus, his heir apparent, and at his side hangs a lustrous sword (Excalibur of old), sole remaining symbol of legal Roman power. No Lady of the Lake hands Artos the sword...
...Rojas' son-in-law and No. 1 apologist, Samuel Moreno, should try to laugh off the riot in his newspaper as "trivial and paltry." Said El Catolicismo: "Thousands of witnesses denounce the vengeful spirit in which the riots avenged discourtesy with inhuman cruelty, cowardice [and] a reign of brute force...
...Skill is the criterion, not brute power or force; points not knockdowns; clear hits not knockouts. Intercollegiate boxing de-emphasizes power and emphasizes skill...