Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...belief in Soviet good intentions (especially among Asians) has been grievously shaken. The uncommitted countries, still fighting the shadows of Western colonialism and inclined to discount the actuality of Soviet imperialism, could see a spectacle of foreign domination at its brutal worst. In Indonesia an official spoke of "Soviet colonialism," strange words on a Djakarta tongue...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26--The United States has started consulting Britain, France and other allies to decide whether to cite Russia before the United Nations on charges of brutal military intervention in Hungary...
Trouble at Lacey builds up like a thundercloud as its people, white and black, find the knot of race too tangled for unraveling by words and seek relief in action -no matter how blind or brutal. The voice at the back door sounds insistently throughout the book; it is the plaintive, smoky voice of the Negro asking his eternal "Why?" and getting, as always, a dusty answer...
...Tyrone, are a fairly interesting lot. The head of the family, an aging and miserly actor, has sacrificed all his promise as an artist by playing only one role for many years, simply because it was lucrative. His wife is a dope addict, his elder son a drunken and brutal philanderer, and his second son, a tubercular writer who has as yet shown little promise, only a sense of despair...
...personal letters to her, since Aline Bernstein had intended to edit them herself. But there are enough letters to other women to indicate the line of Wolfe's attachments: first, his passionate onslaught; then his impatience on achieving (or failing to achieve) success; finally, his fairly brutal and exhaustively documented disillusion. Like many young men, Wolfe talked longingly of marriage until it seemed possible-then he was off and away like a roweled stallion...