Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANCHESTER, N.H. (March 8)--Testimony of Professor Richard C. Ford '36 was roughed up but still standing tonight after a full day of brutal cross-examination and counter-testimony at the "mercy killing" trial here...
...increasingly cynical young man who wrote verse as polished and as sharp as a Guardsman's sword. He created a gallery of unforgettable characters: Mr. Apollinax, the faun-like, fragile embodiment of the dry intellect (whose "laughter tinkled among the teacups"); Apeneck Sweeney, the dumb incarnation of a brutal age; Grishkin, the musky, eternally feline feminine...
...Liberals 9.2%, others 1.3%. The chief of Britain's Gallup poll, Henry Durant, is worried about one point: both this time and in 1945, his poll has been light on the Labor votes. "The weakness of polls," says Durant, "is their inability to find poor people . . . The simple, brutal fact is that most interviewers don't like talking to people who smell...
Wally Williams (nicely played by Melvyn Douglas) is a thoroughgoing heel. He got hold of the nightspot through blackmailing the previous owner; he frightens the help, seduces the showgirls, mistreats his own family. When he gets into financial straits, he determines to go down the same brutal way he came up. He frames one of his partners, breaks the piano-playing hand of the other, sets fire to the nightclub rather than have any other boss set foot...
Marini could be brutal as well as touch ing. His little Kneeling Girl had the crude, ruined air of a primitive idol dredged up from a marsh. It was academically con vincing in some parts, arbitrarily distorted in others. Where pieces of the plaster mold had stuck to the bronze, it was leprously splotched. The head was as round and almost as blank as a cannon ball, but its blankness was part of Marini's intention: a human "universality" that classic features might have lacked. The Kneeling Girl's fat, soft hams and absurdly shriveled arms gave...