Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announcement are not clear. Hemisphere pressure against him has relaxed. Possibly Trujillo was testing his ability to pass on his power to his family. Perhaps he merely wanted a rest; at 59, he is tired, and maybe ill. Whatever the reason, his "retirement" was a milestone on as brutal and bloody a road as any dictator in the Americas has trod in this generation...
...token of esteem from the Skoda steel works: a bulletproof Skoda limousine. Such a gift, said the beaming Togliatti, "*is proof of the industrial ability and excellent workmanship of Czechoslovakia, working...freely to put out cars for the common man at a time when capitalist industry is concentrating on brutal rearmament...
Gromaire's impressionistic Manhattan, on show in Paris last week, is an overwhelming place. His Brooklyn Bridge is a gigantic stone and steel hammock slung between topless towers. Times Square at Night is a glaring latticework of light and darkness. "The shock of Times Square was almost brutal," Gromaire says. "I have seen photos and colored prints of the 'Great White Way,' but they are empty and meaningless when compared with reality...
After working with television for eleven months, Eddie Cantor admitted to Variety that he liked it, although it had some tricky moments: "Television is murder on the phony. Those brutal cameras, those revealing closeups, are tougher than the Kefauver committee. TV exposes hypocrisy, insincerity, anything that's faked and dishonest. That television screen in the living room tells you more about a man's insides than the X-ray machine in a doctor's office. When you've been tested in television's tube, mister...
...Moment. These letters destroy two other romantic legends that have grown up about Keats. One is that he died from the pain caused by the vicious reviews the British literary magazines gave his early poem Endymion. The Keats revealed here was much too hardy to let a few brutal words break him. He wrote: "This is a mere matter of the moment-I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death...