Word: bullfighters
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...first place, a bullfight is not a game, or a contest in the sense which Grantland Rice suggests. There is never any question of win or lose, because the outcome is never in doubt. The bull always dies. A bullfight is rather a sacrifice. It is high tragedy. If there is a contest, in Mr. Taub's sense of the word, it is not between the man and the bull. It is between the man and the crowd. The crowd tries to be passive or hostile, and the man tries to rouse them. This is the essence of his theatrical...
There is no conscious effort to overwhelm the bull with pain. In a good bullfight, the bull must be tired but still dangerous right up to the kill...
...horns. He deserves no sympathy if he gets caught, since he is practically forbidden to put himself in any danger. If he works close to the bull and looks good, he detracts from the maestro's performance. If he gets caught, he may spoil the bullfight: the bull often becomes too dangerous after he has tossed a man once...
...sugrprising, however, that Mr. Taub (no relation to Mulehaas) missed these points, since what he saw at "La Linea" was not a bullfight at all. It was a novillada, an apprentice fight in a small town, and with very bad, very small bulls...
...station wagon, sometimes staying at hotels, sometimes camping, as the hour or mood caught them. Wrote Elizabeth in her diary on July 29: "Papa is not content. He says it is too cold to camp. Mama and I teamed against him. We won." Because Elizabeth wanted to see a bullfight, on the fatal night, the Drummonds had doubled back towards Digne, where they remembered having seen one advertised, and on the way back camped beside the road...