Word: brutishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern novel; of a stroke, following 45 days in a coma; in Nyack, N.Y. In five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until, as it did for the dying pharmacist in her last novel, her own "clock...
Civilized Deer. Gone are the days when brutish nature and greedy hunters combined to decimate American wildlife. In 1905, Elers Koch, a federal forest inspector, spent an entire month on a pack trip through Montana's Sun River country and saw just one game animal in all that time-a scruffy mountain goat. "Today, if you want a deer or an antelope or a moose," says Cliff Rumford, a Great Falls sporting-goods dealer, "you just...
Janssen's savage and savagely portrayed world is in many ways familiar. The lineal ancestry of brutish whores and demonic cripples, bloated dwarfs and twisted drunkards, perverted bourgeois and browbeaten soldiers can clearly be traced back to Durer and then down through George Grosz. In his wispy cloudlike sketches and pastels lurks the orchidaceous venom of Odilon Redon. In his zinc-plated etchings there are shades of Max Beckmann. One, entitled Klee and Ensor Fighting over a Smoked Herring, acknowledges the artist's debt to both...
...enrages Muggeridge. "Like a deep-frozen, broiler-reared, cellophane-wrapped wing of chicken," he wrote, "American women tend to be more appetizing to the sight than to the taste." He is devoutly pessimistic. "The concept of this world as a wilderness, and of human life as short and brutish, fits the circumstances of most people most of the time." And he despises all schemes for human betterment. "Deliverance from happiness would seem to be the greatest need of mankind today...
...minutes past midnight on Valentine Day, 1948. Their son was born the following September, and the next year they separated. Gossip columnists, who had promoted the union as a real-life sequel to Cinderella and Prince Charming, billed it subsequently as Beauty and the Beast, casting Win as the brutish, skinflint millionaire...