Word: lurking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suffers from Fü;p-Miller's one-dimensional characterization: across a symbolic landscape, only sardonic Adam Ember (Hungarian for "man"') plods with recognizably human gait. But despite such weaknesses, The Silver Bacchanal is genuinely disturbing as a brutish vision of the dark cravings that often lurk beneath the thin texture of civilization...
...another of Duerrenmatt's pessimistic, Pernod-flavored judgments on mankind, The Deadly Game has both its moral and its theatrical merits. Few men tried at Duerrenmatt's Court of the Unconscious would escape whipping; in the unconscious of the very men who stage the trials there may lurk as much blood lust as love of law. They, with their icy, refined, half-mad sense of justice, and the American, with his coldhearted dog-eat-dog view of life, face one another with contrasted inhumanity; the space between them seems nothing less at times than all groping humanity itself...