Word: brutishness
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Carter did not contribute much with his reflections on how unfair the human condition is. Everyone knows that life is unfair. It is also, as Thomas Hobbes pointed out, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Life's unfair ness is so self-evident in, say, slums, or institutions for the retarded and insane, or in any cancer ward, that it needs no sad-but-true sighings from the White House. To be sure, the President did have other reasons; he fears, for one thing, that abortion may become merely belated contraception. Certainly, responsible people should take greater care...
...carrion concubine. His brutish mind...
...characters, both the worldly Carruthers and Davies, whom Carruthers has always patronized but comes to admire. There is, of course, a damsel in distress - Clara, whose Englishness in the midst of Germans gives away the plot a bit early. But who cares? A man would have to be a brutish lout not to fall for Clara, with her "brown, firm hand - no, not so very small, my sentimental reader...
...from the best bureaucracies in Washington and the VISTA volunteers-after all those good intentions and all that matching money -can Caudill's Appalachia be more of a blight today than it was a decade ago? The villain of Caudill's piece is the coal industry: "backward, brutish, medieval," controlled by "industrial Neanderthals." Caudill contends the industry has corrupted the American political system from the county courthouse to the state capital to the halls of Congress with what he scathingly refers to as "contributions...
...revolution was brought about largely because white voters became disgusted with Connor's brutish tactics and heavy political hand. In the midst of the 1963 racial outbreaks, they succeeded in scrapping the archaic and arrogant commission form of government that provided his raw power. The mayor and city council who replaced the three commissioners (including Connor) have been more responsive and progressive. Mayor David J. Vann, 48, is a hearty lawyer and Methodist Sunday-school teacher who won the job last November in a campaign without any racial issues. The nine-member city council includes three blacks...