Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats called Charlie Wilson "revolting . . . inhuman . . . brutal." South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston said he "makes me sick with fear." At week's end, in his first and only speech of the campaign, former President Harry Truman labeled Wilson's words "the attitude of too many big-business spokesmen in the Republican Party." In Buffalo the C.I.O. handed jobless men cans of dog food...
Secret File stars Robert Alda, and its first script had a touchingly old-fashioned air. Alda, dressed in Nazi uniform, crept into wartime Germany to locate the factory where Hitler was manufacturing a bacteria bomb. There were squads of brutal and booted Gestapo, a beautiful barmaid (Was she enemy or friend?), a German professor who recoiled from making weapons for mass destruction. Alda had plenty of opportunity to make a stiff upper lip and to say things like "I'm only doing a job that has to be done...
Steinberg needs no captions to explain such mincing mimicries or to underline his jibes at the world. If he did use words, the effect might become altogether too brutal. Commenting on one of his Christmas cards, which shows Santa's sleigh drawn by a tiny bird, Steinberg once sighed that "the bird every so often gets a tremendous hit with that whip." And a gentle smile perked for just an instant his sad mustache...
...rending inflections of one who has known the blues, Bechet played favorite tunes, e.g., Sunny Side of the Street, My Man, Big Chief. The crowd roared approval and the critics agreed. "His accents . . . touched me deeply by their simple humanity, as if they came from the entrails," wrote one. "Brutal joy," added another...
...Restraint should be firm but not brutal or punitive. The widespread belief that a casualty in panic can be jolted out of his confusion by slapping him in the face or dousing him with cold water ... is unsound...