Word: frailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confusion of Identities. The aggressiveness of the aboriginal hunter proved useful in the development of human civilization. It not only produced bold suppliers of meat but brawny and self-assured males whose belligerence enforced order in the group, insulated its frailer members against outside enemies, and imperiously cornered the most desirable females. Man who possessed these traits, says Tiger, guaranteed their own succession and the improvement of the species by eliminating the weaker, less assertive males...
...talks roused little interest at the time, and were soon overshadowed by the melodrama of Edward's abdication in order to marry "the woman I love''-the twice-divorced American socialite, Wallis Warfield Simpson. Since then, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, growing paler and frailer with the passage of years, have drifted from Portugal to the West Indies, from Manhattan to Paris. Their pastimes have been the trifling ones of showing up at balls, growing roses...
Beyond All Isms. A heavy interplay of curious coincidences and a shallow depiction of character place this book with Silone 's frailer fiction. However, the fact that the main sacrificial act in the novel is performed by a Fascist is significant as well as startling. It marks how much the world and Silone have changed from the 1930s, when left-v.-right politics was not only the ruling international passion but a kind of immutable moral law. The Fox and the Camellias is a book beyond Fascism, Communism, socialism or even humanism. It is a Christian statement, arguing essentially...