Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Adolf Hitler stung Austria's Chancellor Engelbert ("Millimetter-nich"*) Dollfuss with a 1,000-mark visa charge for Germans entering Austria. Smarting, Dollfuss considered slapping back with a tariff wall against German goods that would have hurt both Germany and Austria. Instead, giving gentle tit for brutal tat, he restored the five-schilling visa charge for Austrians going to Ger- many, forbade any to do so except for urgent business reasons. Then he turned back to the serious business of fighting the Nazi pox within Austria...
With a volte face almost breathtaking in its completeness, Mr. Adam's contribution is succeeded by a short story from the ubiquitous pen of Earnest Hemingway entitled "Homage to Switzernot obtrusively so, and is refreshingly brutal. While actually containing nothing but a few sentences of conversation, loosely connected, the tale is singularly incisive and clear cut in the total effect. It comes in welcome contrast to the usual run of magazine effusions...
...wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor put in, ''Shaw, don't you realize that this is Helen Keller? She is deaf and blind." Snapped brutal poseur Shaw, "Why, of course! All Americans are deaf and blind-and dumb...
...tense, the perfect approach for hearing something real. Mr. Walter Piston of the Music Department of dear old Harvard was the first to disturb the equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them that music belong to life. At least his music does. Los Angeles Times...
...worthless to the cause. Workers must be made class-conscious, must be given new and inspiring leaders for the "revolution." Organized labor offers no such leaders because unions have gone in for racketeering. And: "The origin of racketeering is obviously in the Capitalistic system. Capitalism, essentially lawless and brutal, is inherently a racket but in America it is more blatantly...