Word: cunningness
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father. A young man named Ronny Howard is Hollywood's latest heartthrob, but to look at him you'd never know it. His hair is the color of iodine. His teeth are separated by gaps he can push a pea through. His...
The human body, according to Canetti, bristles with power. The most innocent-seeming gesture recalls the primitive seizing and devouring of prey. "The hand's real glory derives from the grip," writes Canetti, "the central and most often celebrated act of power." The hard, unyielding rows of teeth resemble...
Glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. (1934) It was by acting as the inflexible champion of the nation and the state that it was possible for me to gather the consent, even the enthusiasm, of the French, and to win from foreigners respect and...
The Triumph of a Sausage. The plot of the novel is simply how many prison rules Shukhov will get away with breaking in a single day. After eight years in the camp, he has an animal cunning for finding food and avoiding punishment. He knows when to press forward, when...
Aristocrats & Myths. Baldwin maintains that "Negro boys and girls who are facing mobs today come out of a long line of improbable aristocrats-the only genuine aristocrats this country has produced . . . The Negro's past, of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and...