Word: brutishness
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...nearly everyone but Red Boss Enver Hoxha, who has desperately clung to power for 20 years, life in tiny Albania can be brutish, nasty and short. Fourteen concentration camps and a dozen jails are jammed with an estimated 30,000 prisoners-nearly 2% of the total population. The secret police favor such refinements as thumbscrews and electric cages, in which the current is gradually built up in walls and floor while the victim dances in agony...
...people educated at colleges with elective curriculums-The Odyssey is the story of the long voyage home from the Trojan Wars of Odysseus, lord of Ithaca, to be reunited with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus. On the way, he and his men suffered such ordeals as imprisonment by brutish cannibal giants, shipwreck, seduction, famine and feast. Meanwhile, back at the palace, a half-hundred soft civilians squatted on the absent lord's domain, eating and drinking their heads off, seducing the maidservants, insulting the stripling heir, and competing for the honor of consoling the presumed widow. The whole...
...reductio ad abum of an old childhood favo THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINS John Mills (the father of), J MacArthur, and, yes, Dorothy Guire all struggle manfully, but Walt's too much for the like them. Co-featured in another neyism, THE HOUND T THOUGHT HE WAS A RACO Nasty, brutish and all too unfortably long...
...repairs, rapacious for rent money, and not above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices of life that it is impossible to dislike her. Among the tenants Author Lessing found types who, at first glance, might resemble people anywhere...
...also suffers from Fü;p-Miller's one-dimensional characterization: across a symbolic landscape, only sardonic Adam Ember (Hungarian for "man"') plods with recognizably human gait. But despite such weaknesses, The Silver Bacchanal is genuinely disturbing as a brutish vision of the dark cravings that often lurk beneath the thin texture of civilization...