Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Rumpff was shocked. "You have committed a brutal and merciless assault on a boy who was no more than a child," he said. The court sentenced both brothers to eight years in jail and ten strokes with a bamboo cane (not to be raised higher than the shoulder of the striker). And at that the courtroom buzzed, and white women sobbed. Explained a Boer farmer: "To see white men sent to prison and flogged like Kaffirs for killing a thieving Kaffir is the deepest humiliation...
Component parts: A story Spades attempting to be brutal-real, filth-drenched, nothing. The factory, the city; depravity, warped and twisted. Not talent but words fitted into disgusting thoughts, and then moulded into repelling images. First Prize. "Armed with the morning paper rolled in his pocket, he heads for the purchasing of smoke, the disguiser of perplexity and the medium of delight." And after jointless words; again pointless obscenities. A true picture filtered on a canvas through a sewer...
...Chinese captured by the U.N. in Korea, a devastating 14,209 refused to go home. The first wave of enthusiasm among China's landless millions, among many intellectuals and young Chinese, has waned severely. Land reform became not a matter of justice, but a brutal stamping out of landlords and recalcitrants, a mass injustice in which all had to participate and to share the complicity. Even inside the party there is loyalty trouble. Item: ". . . It is of paramount necessity," warned Party Dogmatist Liu Shao-chi last February, "that at this crucial stage all comrades . . . must wage unrelenting struggle against...
...portraits opposite and the farm and genre scenes on the following page well illustrate Walker's text. In them a plain-Jane, a complacent family, a fruitful farm and a brutal sport are presented head on, neatly and with no nonsense. Yet the girl's iron coiffure, the bilateral symmetry of the family's bird cages, the minted gold sky over the farmstead and the shoe-button eyes of the battle royal's 129 spectators are vivid touches for all their technical clumsiness...
...routine week in Kenya's brutal...