Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Williamsburg to Cairo to Moscow, the events of last week made a sharp reminder that the perils of peace, mercifully less brutal than the horrors of war, are nevertheless real...
...Press Association's outgoing president, Charles McNeill of Dayton, Ohio, general manager of a firm publishing Catholic children's magazines. "Diocesan newspapers have called Commonweal Communist," says he, "and some of the Jesuits have claimed that America has sold out to the Commies. I have been called brutal, blasphemous, unscrupulous and monstrous, for publicly defending the right of laymen to run magazines like Commonweal. Because of my job, they have even called me a perverter of the minds of Catholic children." At the farthest poles are Brooklyn's Tablet and Manhattan's radical-pacifist Catholic Worker...
...obviously read quite a few case histories of slum children. But when Frankie was good, nobody paid any attention to him; so he decided to be bad. That settled, he developed a morbid fear of being touched; he began to rough his mother up; he led his gang in brutal street fights; finally he decided "to bump a guy" who had offended him. "I feel loose," he tells his accomplice as they wait giggling in the shadows for their victim, like little boys fumbling in a dark closet for the cookie jar. "Like I was made for gettin' even...
...deserter a stunned and muddled laggard sergeant major who is trying to get back to his unit. Author Ledig, a twice-wounded veteran of the Russian front, has given his royalties from this painful book to an orphanage for war victims. Readers can deduce this compassion from his apparently brutal narrative; what is at work here is not the notorious German talent for self-pity. Men-Russian and German-die in the same mechanical terms, and the Russians share and share alike. Finally, young (34) Narrator Ledig denies himself a soldier's permissible cynicism. His major...
...taking floats human driftwood from the general shipwreck of war. A cuckolded buddy runs his tongue over and over the story of his wife's infidelity with a Russian as if it were an empty tooth socket. A blond fellow soldier of eroded good looks reveals that a brutal sergeant seduced him into homosexuality. Finally, there is a Polish tart and spy so moved by the lines of suffering in Andreas' face that she forgets her trade and plays Bach to him on the brothel piano...