Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threatened by a great tyranny, a tyranny that is brutal in its primitiveness. It is a tyranny that has brought thousands-millions of people-into slave camps and is attempting to make all human kind its chattel...
...Stateville prison in Joliet, Ill., the warden said that Inmate Nathan Leopold, now a bald 48, who teamed with Richard Loeb in the brutal 1924 "thrill murder" of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, has been a "very good" prisoner. He works as an X-ray technician in the prison hospital. Through the prison school and correspondence courses, he has learned "about 25 languages." Next New Year's Day he will be eligible for parole. His plans? Said the warden: "I don't think he knows himself what he'd do if he ever gets...
...Fancy Dress Party is set in "a certain country on the other side of the ocean," but in its brutal swagger and decadent morals it clearly recalls Mussolini's Italy. General Tereso Arango, its aging and bilious dictator, has always been fearless in battle and seldom troubled by scruples in handling political enemies. He has only one touch of frailty: let a lovely woman flutter her lashes and he caves in like a moonstruck schoolboy...
...brutal, do refugees always come to us, never to the Communists . . .? People do not run towards brutality...
...amazing thing was that some of the novels in the Rougon-Macquart cycle proved, unarguably, to be masterpieces: L'Assommoir, a tragedy of poverty, Germinal, a tale of striking workmen, and La Terre, a brutal epic of farm life. For 25 years, as his books peddled the "black poetry" of pessimism and garbled heredity under the name of hard fact, men of state and men of letters rose to protest-but not to much avail-that Zola was lying. Millions read Zola's books...