Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every cookbook, there are 50 kookbooks, with titles like The Galloping Gourmet, What Cooks in Suburbia, Wolf in Chefs Clothing, Feed the Brute, Wurst You Were Here, and Abalone to Zabaglione. Apparently, publishers will publish anything that has recipes in it. There is a recent book called Fine Food, Wine, and Pickled Pine, for example, which is subtitled "The Story of Coventry Forge Inn" and contains a chapter headed "Our Recipes-Haute and Not so Haute." The negative approach is big these days. Holt, Rinehart & Winston has put out The Madison Avenue Cookbook "for people who can't cook...
...image of the uninstructed man as a brute intent on his own heedless pleasure has long vanished. Keeping pace with latter-day psychology and sociology, man is seen now as a fellow who needs help himself. Writer Davis has a section titled "Calming the Groom's Fears." And Medical Columnist Dr. Walter Alvarez writes: "On the honeymoon, the bride may have to be the one who is kind and patient and understanding...
Mickey Spillane has always known what sort of fellow should play his hero, Mike Hammer, on the screen. The part calls for a real ball-peen brute with magnetal animism. There have been three Mickey Spillane movies. In I, the Jury, an actor called Biff Elliot tried his best. Then Ralph Meeker got his chance in Kiss Me Deadly. Then came a fellow named Robert Bray in My Gun Is Quick. But they were tack Hammers all. There was only one man to do it, Spillane concluded, and he has finally stepped into the role. The new Mike Hammer...
...philosophy, must have come from the prominence in his consciousness of mystical moods. . .? The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling." The bizarre consequences of the Hegelian system when applied to brute Anglo-American "facts" tend to vanish in the realm of pure sensation. Hegel really "makes sense" in this pre-rational area; his work appears expressly designed for dealing with pure experience...
...listen: "You will hear a great noise inside it." When Lazarillo gullibly does as he is told, the beggar slams his soft young head against the hard stone. He knocks more sense into the boy than he intended to. At the first chance, Lazarillo slyly stands the old blind brute in front of a stone column, tells him he is standing at the edge of a narrow brook...