Word: inhuman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looms over him, and the Vagabond looks at it and does not move. he knows he could perhaps move his head and body out of the way by a frantic effort. But he also knows he is certain to lose a stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over...
...Most were better as expressions of hot feeling than as paintings. A few, by Max Weber, Nathanial Dirk, Arnold Blanch, Victor Candell, William Cropper, Mervin Jules, were excellent as both. None equaled a set of etchings by Picasso called Dreams and Lies of Franco, caricaturing El Caudillo as an inhuman, hairy nightmare. Favorite painting of a group of Amalgamated Clothing Workers who showed up at the opening was Two Generations, by Alexander Z. Kruse: the Kaiser as a kangaroo carrying a baby kangaroo earmarked with swastikas...
...boats, animals and people off the atoll, leaving nothing but the Robert Edmond Jonesish ruin of a church. The hurricane lasts for 20 minutes. It is a technically superb, terrifying combination of miniatures, real storm shots, tank shots, stage shots made with wind machines, all blended with bursts of inhuman music as savage as the piping of damnation. During the course of it Terangi proves his worth by getting a rope to the church, rescuing Madame de Laage (Mary Astor), whose husband, Resident Governor Eugene de Laage (Raymond Massey). stood ready to send him back to prison. When the waves...
Occasionally Poet Jeffers presents splendid glimpses, not of inhuman, but of non-human things...
...library's attitude toward the undergraduate. Until the latter feels that the library is his, that attendants are there to help and not restrict him, he will coninue to regard the friendly and hospitable air of the Farnsworth Room as an oasis in an otherwise grim and inhuman desert...