Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soummam, Abbane moved on to his toughest job: Algiers itself. By December 1956 eleven bombs a day were exploding in the streets, and the city was on the verge of collapse. The French replied with General Jacques Massu and his paratroop division, who fought the F.L.N. terror with equally brutal terror. In two months Abbane's underground was smashed, and he escaped to Tunis minutes before he was to be arrested...
...Towns burn, civilians are blown to bits, whole battalions are destroyed as they try to carry out orders from an incompetent division adjutant. Over the ghastly scene the snowy Carpathians loom like symbols of nature's indifference. But Heinrich neither needs nor uses literary symbolism. With a spare, brutal directness of language, he is able to show how men fight and die, convey the pressing of a trigger, the spreading stain of blood in the snow. Crack of Doom makes one thing overpoweringly clear: Infantryman Heinrich was there, and he didn't miss a thing...
...played by granite-faced, gravel-voiced Neville Brand, 37, a relative unknown until his Part 1 performance a fortnight ago. Though the limitation of time forced the play to move so swiftly that complexities of Willie's evil drive for self-esteem were lost, it surged with the brutal power of Willie's premise: "Man is conceived in sin, born in corruption, and he passes from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud...
...street-shadows assault was even more brutal because it was luck-of-the-draw. As police put the thing together, the gang decided to roll a passer-by for money. In Ho Oh, in shirtsleeves, had slipped out of his uncle's apartment close by the Penn campus to mail a letter a block away, was attacked as he was doubling back. Two boys shackled the Korean's arms, others knocked off his glasses, hammered him to the ground, dragged his body behind a parked automobile and frisked pockets and socks for money that wasn't there...
...delights most. Drawing on his motley acquaintance, Levant has corralled both name stars and intellectuals as his guests. Eddie Cantor was followed by Christopher Isherwood, Adolphe Menjou by Aldous Huxley, Red Skelton by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. His subjects run the gamut from highly intellectual topics to brutal digs. Isherwood told him: "You are like a Dostoevsky character-completely unmasked at all times...