Word: caveman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caveman in politics, with the caveman's virility, with the caveman's courage, with the caveman's violence and with the caveman's complete incapacity to realize that he might be wrong. For Senator Reed every argument is a quarrel, every quarrel is a fight, every fight is a massacre...
...zeal shown by these eminent gentlemen for conforming to the truth is very laudable, but the surprising thing of course is that this zeal has been so long in manifesting itself. Why was not the word removed from the marriage service long ago? It became obsolete when the caveman's cudgel went out of fashion. For that matter why was it ever put in at all? Of course it found its way in at the instigation of some blundering male. But what man had the temerity to believe that exacting a woman's promise to obey would give...
...keep silent, despite the strident urgings of his sweetheart, whose stagnant purity is the one false note in the play?everyone else is as humanly frank as the law will allow. Louis Calhern gives a redoubtable performance as the Yale oarsman, achieving the feat of looking like a 'reluctant caveman. Judith Anderson is exceptionally facile as the insidious cobra. Ralph Morgan as the betrayed husband and Clara Moores as the insistently good sweetheart add to the absorbtion of a drama that leaves one flushed...
...Caveman methods mingle with cigars and red roses to make an unconvincing picture of a political boss. He seems to imagine he can browbeat a girl into marrying him in the same way his henchmen intimidate voters at the polls. In the last six seconds she decides she likes it. The need for a quick finish to the picture seems to be the deciding factor. Until then she had merely tolerated his attentions, which included three carloads of roses, one large display of fireworks for her birthday party, season tickets for her guests to baseball and the opera...
William J. Fielding is editor. He is also author of several books, among them The Caveman within Us, Health and Self Mastery. To the first issue of Know Thyself he contributed a poem, Love, which begins...