Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sorokin, professor of sociology at Harvard since 1930, has long viewed with distress the moral laxity of the U.S., his adopted country. He is especially concerned with the national preoccupation with sex, as evidenced by the success of Mickey Spillane's detective stories ("calculated to enthrall the most brutal sex sadist") and of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior. As a nation, Sorokin warned this week, the U.S. is in danger of going sex-crazy...
...Governor's shocked indignation impressed voters at first, perhaps, but the brutal conduct of the raid quickly disillusioned most and invited swarms of anti-Pyle editorials in Arizona's newspapers. One must wonder whether the satisfaction of moral absolutists in Phoenix is worth the problem caused in a hamlet two hundred miles from the nearest "civilized" metropolis of ten thousand people...
...Bridge Collapses. Then, with brutal suddenness, tragedy struck. The Wellington-Auckland Express, crammed with holidaymakers bound to see the Queen, was winding through the rugged mountains of North Island. High up in the hills (probably as the result of a minor volcanic eruption), a mountain lake burst its banks and sent a torrent of water rushing down the Wangaehu River. As the nine-car train crossed over the Wangaehu Bridge, underpinnings weakened by the surge of water buckled and sagged. Five cars dropped into the river, dragging the engine with them. A sixth teetered drunkenly on the edge...
...intervene at any time in a brutal way, this sliding...
...changes in Commonwealth law. In 1792, John Gardner came to the defense of the drama in a speech in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in which he said that "the illiberal, unmanly, and despotical act which now prohibits theatrical exhibitions among us, to me, Sir, appears to be the brutal, monstrous, spawn of a sour, envious, morose, malignant and truly benighted superstition." In 1794 the first theater opened in Boston...