Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...changes, who welcomed paradox with open arms and accepted the contradiction of life on its own terms. Sir Walter Raleigh could violate his own word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes of the Iliad. And the Virgin Queen herself, in the midst...
...guilt for the actual outbreak of the War. Nothing can exonerate Germany from responsibility and any thought of whitewashing the Imperial government would be ludicrous. There is no question that the philosophy of the Prussian military caste was a barbarous one, and that it was expressed in a particularly brutal and uncompromising form. But the point is that essentially the same philosophy was dominant in the Allied nations. A blatant nationalism, a selfish imperialism, and a ruthless economic war on all rivals was characteristic of all the nations of the world in 1914. There was a profoundly evil philosophy there...
...fleeting concepts of any single group or time. It must bespeak a noble answer to the call set forth in the past as well as in the present. That "those who died in 1914-18 were ... led to believe that they could attain a sweet and lasting peace through brutal and coarse killings" is a statement as brutal and coarse as the killings it vilifies. those men were not led to believe anything; they were called upon to surrender all their beliefs and unite in a cause for which many may have had little personal feeling. That they were able...
...much more suffering must the world go through before the understanding comes that men are fools, and not martyrs, who go to war! Those who died in 1914-18 were not heroes; they were poor, deluded misfortunates, led to believe they could attain a sweet and lasting peace through brutal and coarse killings. Martyrs are they? Heroes? Sublime, splendid men? Perhaps if they had lived and died in peace, working actually being useful--then perhaps they might have aspired to those titles. But how can we grant them to them when they wasted their genius in killing and being killed...
Millicent Jordan (Ann Andrews) is giving a dinner for Lord & Lady Ferncliffe, visiting social lion and lioness. To it are invited Socialite Dr. & Mrs. Talbot, a brutal financier named Packard and his wife who "speaks pure Spearmint," Carlotta Vance, a dated theatrical beldame, and Larry Renault, a has-been film star. Into this tranche devie, from the minute the invitations are telephoned, steps tragedy. The film star, lover of the Jordans' daughter, is made to realize he is through. Packard ruins Mr. Jordan, determines to get a divorce from his wife, who is in love with Dr. Talbot...