Word: brutishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tuned racing instruments to Florida for the Sebring Twelve Hour Endurance Race. Each year, with splendid monotony, they mop up everything but the oil on the track. When onetime Racing Driver Carroll Shelby decided in 1961 to challenge the master with a cannibalized machine of his own devising - a brutish Ford engine* jammed into a bulging A.C. Bristol body - the Monster of Maranello smiled a fine Italian smile. Last year on this concrete and blacktop track, three of the six Shelby Cobras entered broke down; highest Cobra fin ish was a low eleventh. Two months ago at Daytona, the best...
...develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that's what. Seven years ago, goaded by the infidelities of her brutish husband Peter, she had an affair with the son of a neighboring squire. Peter found out and went into a rage; husband and wife struggled on the edge of a cliff, and over went Peter...
Baldwin met Wright there. Of course, the meeting was awkward; Baldwin, indeed, was standing on Wright's shoulders. No more books can be written in which the fate of the U.S. Negro is as nasty, brutish, short and hard as it was only yesterday for Jake Jackson. But Lawd Today is a thing to remember...
...film begins the story of Barabbas where the Bible lets it end. Flung from his cell by soldiers, the brutish criminal (Anthony Quinn) reels against the whipping post where Christ has just been scourged; when he rises to his feet his hands are covered with Christ's blood. Flung into the sunlight, he stands blinking at a young man in white robes; is it merely the unaccustomed light that dazzles his eyes, or does he really see a radiance streaming from the young man's face? As he stares, strangely moved, he stumbles against a big wooden cross...
...both sides of the Atlantic; in Cambridge. An outspoken, impatient man with deep-set eyes and beetling brows, Trevelyan was a zealous defender of the green splendor of England's countryside, warning his fellow Britons to preserve its beauties, or "the future of our race will be brutish and shorn of spiritual value...