Word: preyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actually World War I attrition portrayed by a man who could back wars--were they not all fought so stupidly. Kubrick took a single incident, a suicide mission commanded from afar by an ambitious martinet, and revealed 1917 savagery in microcosm: fixed infantry moving against armed fortifications, prey to flairs and automatic weapons; military structures staffed by lawyers at the trenches and deadwood aristocrats at the drafting-table; calls to duty and service which can't quell the fears of men in torpor. Kubrick stuck so truly and unobtrusively to his debunking overview that the irony of his "brotherhood...
Such trivia are not redeemed by Morris' pious peroration, calling on "the human animal ... a simple tribal hunter by evolution," to indulge in a "magical return to intimacy." As any ethologist would warn Tribal Hunter Morris, man is the only animal to hunt without hunger, cropping his prey to extinction. ·Horace Judson
Eschewing statistics and representative samples, Coles avoids falling prey to the same generality that baffles both dogmatic radicals and value-free sociologists...
Otherwise, Harvard could fall prey to the psyched Yalies, a sad comment on the Crimson's inability to blend its talent into a winning team...
...years ago. Portuguese adventurers, as thick as piranhas, swarmed up the Amazon, slaughtering all the Indians that seemed unfit for slavery. When the Indians, who had no concept of regular work, proved uneconomical, black Africans were imported. Indian, white and black blood blended into mulatto culture, which continued to prey on the tribal Indian. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries in the Mato Grosso, private armies of bandeirantes pillaged for gold, diamonds and slaves. Thousands of Indians who were not killed by gun died because they lacked the antibodies to ward off their invaders' most common illnesses. The Indians...