Word: brutishness
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...Howard Korder's The Lights and a production as epic and energized as Mark Wing-Davy's at New York City's Lincoln Center. Without preaching, without invective, without in any way distorting urban life, The Lights makes one ashamed to dwell in a city and absorb its brutish selfishness...
...citizens. But no right is as fundamental as the right to a safety. At its most basic level, society is intended to safeguard its members from the chaos of the state of nature. But can life in many urban areas really be described as anything other than "nasty, brutish and short?" In this context, it is hardly surprising that a whole segment of the population feels disconnected from society, a society that cannot or will not protect them...
...Indian country. But it is longer than that; she and the reader have passed into a region of what, if this were a Latin American novel, would be called magic realism. But here there is no green, sun-shot jungle life force, only the fogged, toxic gray of brutish, dying cities...
...father had created. Tobias recalls that he admired Geoffrey's book but that some of the characterizations seemed jarringly out of key. Then his own book came out. It told of their mother's cross-country flight with him, leaving Geoffrey behind with Arthur, and ending up with a brutish new husband in a backwoods Washington town. Geoffrey had a similar reaction, or so his brother recalls: Yes, yes, but no; it wasn't exactly like that. "It was a lesson in perception and subjectivity," says Tobias, "so in the end I had great sympathy for Geoffrey's book...
...when artistic discourse has tended to be nasty, brutish and short- winded, Olivier Messiaen's musical grands projects stand apart from -- and largely above -- the works of his more prosaic mid-century contemporaries. Devoutly Catholic, the French composer was blessed with a pagan sense of muscular rhythm and luminous color. Highly intellectual, he was also irredeemably mystical, taking an almost childlike pleasure in the sounds of nature, especially bird song. He followed no "ism" and founded no school, but Messiaen, who died in April at 83, looms as one of the century's giants...