Word: brutishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collages did not last as long as ordinary painted pictures, and their very impermanence was bound to appeal to George Grosz and other German Dadaists (who pretended to despise art) of post-World War I. One Grosz number: a brutish-looking portrait with a cut-out of a mechanical pump where the heart should be. Max Ernst (who has since gravitated logically to surrealism) attached a lady's legs to a bit of lace, pasted both on a cloudy sky and called his faintly sinister porridge Above the Clouds Walks the Midnight...
Something for the Girls. "There'll always be risks, and there'll always be accidents, but we can cut out a lot of the harum-scarum stuff without spoiling the thrills," Schindler says. With the development of the brutish little Offenhauser motors, midgets today seldom hide under the cowl outboard motors or souped-up Ford engines. Modern midgets have hit as high as 142 m.p.h. on a straightaway. On the small tracks, the doodlebugs have a ceiling of about 75 m.p.h., since chauffeurs have to negotiate a new curve every four or five seconds...
American colleges such as Army, Princeton and Dartmouth play a football-type of game emphasizing bodily contact, speed and long boots. MacDonald decries brutish methods. "You can't win a ball game without controlling the ball," Mac says, "and booting the ball all over the field and banging into peaople doesn't help you get the ball into scoring position...
...some-nine touchdowns in the first two games-but the Man in the Tower is the kind of guy who always aims to do better. At one end of the field, the tackle coach is instructing eleven tackles in the refinements of "forearm shivers." At the other end, twelve brutish guards are doing "duck walks." Nine T-formation quarterbacks, never far from the centers, are working on a half-dozen different types of pivot-the crossover, reverse, reverse-deep, hop-around, slice and crossfire...
Julius Streicher, brutish publisher of Nürnberg's Der Stürmer, No.1 i Jew-baiter of the regime and possessor of what was said to have been the world's largest collection of pornographic literature...