WHAT rough beast now slouches toward Bethlehem, then, if "Pollyanna" is being brought back into print?

As this rough beast of a summer slouches to its end, there is a sense in New York that we are finally paying attention.

"What rough beast slouches toward the hunt, its prey to be undone?"

Presently, America came to understand that some new rough beast had slouched out of California.

Gunther was that legendary dark beast slouching toward Bethlehem.

A little larger work is "The Second Coming," roughly the style of a manuscript illumination in which a rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem.

But I have the feeling that something terrible is in store for us ... that some rough beast is slouching toward Bethlehem to be born.

Poetic pretensions notwithstanding, this particular beast is not slouching toward Bethlehem.

Three crook-backed beasts slouched into the room, red eyes narrow and hateful as they fixed on him.

(What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Sacramento to be born?)