Word: caveman
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...stories are mentally furnished in something better than Farrell's caveman modern. Kilroy Was Here is an evocative, semi-autobiographical prowl among the littered streets and crumbling tenements of Farrell's boyhood on Chicago's South Side. Tart as melting aspirin on the tongue, it lives up to its tag line, "Kilroy was here but left because the place stank." A Baptism in Italy takes a tender look at a beat-up Italian writer-revolutionary who is punchdrunk from too many rounds in a concentration camp. He rouses himself to play gracious host to a sympathetic pair...
...much a part of the magazine as its trademarked, yellow-bordered cover. The walls of his cyprus-paneled office in the Geographic's museumlike building on Washington's 16th Street are lined with trophies - an elephant's foot, a 13th century crusader's sword, a caveman's club-from his years of globetrotting. (In port cities, La Gorce makes straight for the pawnshops, often finds valuable trinkets that sailors have pawned.) Mountains in Alaska and the Antarctic bear his name, as do an island and a golf course on Florida's Biscayne...
...Backseat drivers are much the same (cave wife being dragged by caveman: "Avoid loose stones, and watch out for the Brontosaurus round the corner...
...minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...
...democratic ideal" of "the self-reliant man capable of making his own decisions and stand by them, alone if necessary," you have called "a caveman approach to democracy ... rather silly in the light of modern life..." Do you mean it? UMT would subject men at the immature age of 18 to a training in obedience, lack of independent thinking, typical soldierly evasion of voluntary duties, and excessive respect for hierarchy. It subjects them to martial law, to which the Bill of Rights does not apply; a $10,000 fine and/or five years in prison, for disobeying the president...