Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throne of his power rests upon the bodies of an oppressed people. His sword is at their throats. The vision that delights his eye is a field of the slaughtered. The picture that most entrances his soul is an ocean of blood, through which he can walk with brutal, tyrannical feet...
...What world figure was accused of having "brutal, tyrannical feet?" (See CONGRESS...
...opposition has been the most brutal and unjust since the copper strikes in Colorado a number of years ago. The mayor and chief of police of Garfield are both high salaried employees of the mill owners, and as such have employed every means to crush the strikers...
Hours passed. Brutal Forain caricatures from the pages of Figaro, Le Eire haunted the worried Saint-Gaudens. The irony of Daumier was nothing to that of his disciple, Forain, who became only more venomous with age. (He is now 73.) Came, at last, the reply: "I permit no one to touch my painting. Forain alone can repair that which has been damaged. Return the painting to me at once by first steamer...
...Christian religion reached them all awry and drove the prettiest daughter of the village to delirium and death. The instrument of the Word's distortion is a ranting fanatic of a priest, who boils accurately through the play in the interpretation of John Cromwell. The play is brutal and unpleasant, but a sound and at times swiftly exciting piece of dramaturgy. How much of it is truth and how much of it is theatre, only a witness who knows the hidden southern countries can determine...