Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bullfighter (or the bull) with every gimmick going in the old sexual catch business. He feeds her the lines he figures she wants to hear: "I wouldn't insult a woman by proposing," and the sticker, "A woman is a man who cries." (What instincts.) Which is what--the brute man that he is through and through--she finally succumbs to. He gets his first handle on her heart when he outwits her in a deal over a Louis XVI table, and he clinches the matter when he stands up to the taunts of her intellectual friends. Out of ignorance...
...HARVARD is your friend, you can dispense with your enemies. The University had a chance to use its fine name and brute power, and, to put it bluntly, the University blew...
Must this small nation in Asia be subjected to the brute force of the United States? Can the United States win the hearts and minds of the Asian peoples by bombing...
...poise that held us together." Poise with a punch. The Knicks' triumph, in fact, has given the game a renewed emphasis that is echoed in the clarion call of the rabid Knick fans: "Dee-fense!" A relatively small team, the New Yorkers intimidate not by brute force but with a clawing finesse that presses the limits of the rules. Reed handled Laker Center Wilt Chamberlain, for example, with muscular simplicity: he leaned against the giant like a buttress. The result is not dirty or even roughhouse play but what the players like to call a "physical game"-the practice...
...latter then we would be creating the very anxiety that secrecy is meant to eliminate. In short, consideration for human beings' capacity for judgment excludes this policy. However, it would not exclude it in respect to a brute animal, since the brute animal is capable of suffering but not of forming judgments about moral rightness and wrongness. The need and indeed possibility of putting forward arguments and explaining our policy of painless killing does not arise, and therefore whatever rights a brute animal has are not implicated in this way. It does seem, however, that a brute animal does have...