Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOSTON, Jan. 21--Virgil Akins knocked weary Tony DeMarco into virtual fistic obscurity tonight with a 12th round technical knockout in a brutal rematch of welterweights at Boston Garden...
...describing the German expressionism of the twentieth century, the same adjectives keep reappearing. "Incisive" and "bold" are among the milder ones. "Brutal" really ought to be an epithet in art criticism, but in this connection it constantly arises as the laudatory description of a narrative school of art. In comparison, and often, unfortunately, in opposition, the modern art of France is cited as an opposed camp. The debate has been made to resemble an international conflict...
These engravings possess a "brutality," if it can be called that, which surpasses any graphic intensity the contemporary Italians had to offer. But that graphic quality is the servant of a spirituality and poetry which makes the word brutal a sacrilege. Durer is as intellectual as the Expressionists are emotional, as richly controlled as the Expressionists, by and large, are sporadic. Again; the comparison may be unfair; but the teutonic bond between a Dance of Death by the younger Holbein and a twentieth century variation on the same theme is inevitable...
...Hungary, defiance in Poland and denunciation by the world. The restless spirit of dissent seethed in Rumania, in East Germany, even in docile Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In France and Italy, in every Western country, the Communist parties were in turmoil; everywhere veteran comrades were resigning in outrage over his brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt. At the December 1956 Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, he was conspicuously not one of the speakers...
...Batista unwittingly gave Castro his biggest boost: a brutal counter-terrorism campaign that drove thousands of Cubans from neutrality to opposition. Irresponsible police thugs in Havana blunderingly murdered Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, a respected, nonviolent leader of the anti-Batista Orthodox Party ("About like killing Lyndon Johnson," say the rebels). A 15-year-old boy, suspected of bomb tossing, was castrated in Santiago and shipped home dead to his mother. When Rebel Frank Pais, a young schoolteacher, was shot by cops in Santiago, 80,000 Cubans marched to his funeral and closed down the town for seven days with a general...