Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English players is to throw the emphasis on the spiritual struggle. You state that Becket is not inwardly lacerated, whereas the whole play is about his inward laceration; it is because the play is so introspective that it is hard to follow. As for your "Eliot gets in a brutal and final punch," I must say, that even if (as I presume) your dramatic editor is down with the flu, that is no excuse for your turning the job over to the sporting editor...
...their difficulties. In the course of his investigations he built up unsparing portraits of their environments -a pick-up world where nobody understood anybody else, where people imagined crimes and perversions in the back-ground of casual acquaintances, where they confided in strangers and insulted their friends, where enough brutal monstrosities turned up to give substance to their fears and suspicions. Readers might feel that Author O'Hara had not answered all the questions about his Glorias and Julians, but they had to admit that he had followed them through their hangovers, into their bedrooms and breakdowns, and left...
...only Nature and the Catholic Church dared to interfere with the French Penal Code. The hero (Jon Hall) is cast as a native symbolic of all the natives, incredibly strong and brave, free as a bird and incapable of understanding restraint. His arrest, for striking a white, and his brutal captivity are climaxed by a superhuman escape, and on top of this comes "the wind that overturns the earth." To sit through it is an ordeal, fearful and thrilling...
...British Empire were destroyed, the Führer went on pointedly to say, the United Kingdom would soon enough thirst for overseas territory as Germany thirsts today. The English did not secure their colonies by holding democratic plebiscites among the natives, continued the Chancellor, "but through naked, brutal force...
Then, at a stroke, the murder. Then, with a counterstroke, the murderers, using mealy-mouthed journalese, try to justify their crime. In this sudden contrast of shoddy human self-seeking with rapt spiritual self-abnegation, Eliot gets in a brutal and final punch...