Word: monstering
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...point, Eichmann's nerves melted. His face twitched; his tongue flicked his lips and his complexion became sickly pale. But his voice was firm when he made his final statement. "I am not the monster I am made out to be," he said. "This mass slaughter is solely the responsibility of political leaders. My guilt lies in my obedience, my respect for discipline, my allegiance to the colors and the service." He would ask the Jews for pardon, said Eichmann, except that, in view of the verdict, "this would be construed as hypocrisy . . . I must carry the burden imposed...
...nether world of toys this year succeeds in making monsters more monstrous and expendable than ever before. The Great Garloo (Marx) is a sort of teen-age monster who picks things up and carries things around under remote control. Ideal's Robot Commando will fire rockets by voice command. War toys, too, are more realistic than ever. There are aircraft carriers that catapult planes from their decks, tanks that advance relentlessly until a well-aimed stone hits a vulnerable spot. One Civil War set comes with a firing mortar, exploding bunker and battle sound-effects record...
...progression from window washer to chairman of the board is accomplished with such finesse that you scarcely notice the blood on the corpses. The character, in fact, is so basically repulsive that there is probably only one Broadway actor who could turn this despicable crud into the most lovable monster since Barrie's crocodile. That actor has the part...
...homosexual themes and dilemmas. What worries him is that all too often, homosexual playwrights, in deference to the public's preference for normality, seem to be writing about heterosexuals, but do so in a homosexual way. In such plays, he writes, the female is frequently "a fantastically consuming monster or an incredibly pathetic drab." and the male is "a ragingly lustful beast or a limp, handsome, neutral creature of otherworldly purity." The homosexual's view of human relations distorts normal man-woman situations, and "the audience senses rot at the drama's core...
...thinkers believe that the Russian blast of a 50-megaton bomb indicates weakness rather than strength: it could mean that the Soviet Union does not have enough missiles to deliver large numbers of smaller, but perhaps more effective, nuclear warheads. But whatever the Soviet military motives for exploding the monster bomb-and not everyone was as optimistic as the military-the free world had no doubt that one of Khrushchev's chief aims was purely and simply to terrorize and intimidate the world...