Word: brutishness
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Hyperbolic Tradition. It took liberals a long time to appreciate Buckley. His public encounters at first tended to be nasty, brutish and short. After Buckley appeared on his show, Jack Paar told the TV audience that Buckley had "no humanity." Buckley described David Susskind as the most deserving candidate for the "title of Mr. Eleanor Roosevelt." Susskind retaliated on camera by ridiculing Buckley's mannerisms and calling them "symptoms of psychotic paranoia." Buckley did not add to his popularity by co-authoring a book called McCarthy and His Enemies with his brother-in-law, L. Brent Bozell. Charge...
...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...