Word: brutishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dons Delight is a series of dialogues among imaginary dons in an imaginary Oxford College (Simon Magus), taking place at 50-year intervals from 1588 to 1938. In the early passages, Monsignor Knox does not spare his readers the "brutish superstitions" and the "idolatrous mass-altars" which were the phrases of anti-Catholics. Nor, later, does he disdain to write comedy...
...sordid game of power and prestige, or would seek to banish him from membership in the human family; ... he opposes any social philosophy which would regard man as a mere chattel in commercial competition for profit, or would set him at the throat of his fellows in a blind, brutish class struggle for existence...
Golden Boy is not in the mass-attack tradition of the typical Odets power play. It singles out cross-eyed, spiritually tormented Joe Bonaparte (Luther Adler), studies his indecision between the violin and pugilism, traces the gradual disintegration of his character in the brutish environment of the ring, and brings him finally to the realization that the false ideals and broken hands of the fight game have ruined his chances for happiness, broken his father's heart...
...than the first two, were therefore considered to be more ancient. To Dr. Weidenreich's delight, they were both mature, as indicated by the closing of the cranial sutures. The fifth skull he last week pronounced the oldest human fossil ever found, older even than Pithecanthropus erectus, the brutish ape-man of Java...
...defense . . . will prove Gebhardt was a cruel, browbeating type of man," declared the Daily News, "and that he was killed as the girl sought to repulse his brutish advances...