Word: neanderthallic
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There are five essays in the book. The Sportive Origin of the State discovers, with more art than anthropology, the origins of the state in the rapistic longings of proto-Neanderthal youth. The timely essay on The Argentine State and the Argentinean sheds less light on the Argentine than on...
As for the German soldiers, officers and privates were generally "human and tolerant." Sergeants, as in the Prussian tradition, were Neanderthal types. The fliers seemed literally insane: not necessarily drugged, but political fanatics, and terrific alcoholics. The tank drivers were much the same.
Before 10 a.m. the big committee room was crowded. Behind the horseshoe desk, puffing reflective pipes, cigarets, or gnawing at cigars, sat 23 members of the 25-man House Foreign Affairs Committee; in the middle of the curve crouched little Sol Bloom, chairman, looking like a Neanderthal man dressed up...
Federal Theatre was allowed the widest latitude of any government theatre ever heard of. It got loud approval from most commercial theatre people (just as libraries are approved by booksellers). It grossed $2,000,000 at the box office and at the end of the project its receipts were meeting...
For weeks the Neanderthal brow of Tammany Congressman Sol Bloom had been furrowed. Now he was beaming. Only yesterday he had discovered what he had been looking for: the grave of one Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823), in Manhattan's Trinity Churchyard. Sol Bloom stumped into the marble vastness of...