Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mouth. He continued to work for the reunion of Pakistan with India. But in the last half year of his life Gandhi found not only the Moslem leader, but many of his own Hindus, opposing attempts at reconciliation. Orthodox Hindus resented his inroads on Hindu customs which Gandhi considered brutal, and therefore indefensible: untouchability, suttee (widow suicide), child marriages. Hindu and Sikh refugees from Moslem hate and murder, pouring into Delhi and other Indian cities, clamored for revenge. The militant Hindu organization Mahasabha (Great Society), to which Gandhi's assassin belonged, worked to make Indiaa purely Hindu state. Patel...
Treasure is not essentially either a western or a comedy. The squeamish and the lovelorn may be wise to stay away, for it has no heroine and a few scenes are shatteringly brutal. But it is a magnificent and unconventional piece of screen entertainment...
...blocking was flattening Eli tackler Ford Nadhorny; (2) that Wally Flynn was outstanding at end and deserves more credit than he has received; (3) that Jim Feinberg and John Gorczynski were superb in the line; and (4) that Chuck Glynn was magnificent at center in repelling continual and brutal attacks designed by Yale to weaken his section of the line...
...that mars the treatment of Solon Barnes and his splintering family in "The Bulwark." Until his death, Cowperwood carries the novel, and although his machinations with the control of the London "underground" approach fantasy, the weight of his personality inevitably overrides the reader's doubts. It is this same brutal personal force which stands Cowperwood by himself as the most suavely terrifying example of the business type in American literature...
White men learned how to survive in a brutal country from the Indians and demonstrated their gratitude by destroying a race. The Indians could not adapt themselves to civilization and soon became the victims in one of the greatest confidence games in history. Drunk on pure alcohol, the braves "sighed and applauded like a congregation of Follies girls at a Mainbocher private showing" when they receiver a doorman's uniform for their furs. The mountain men fought better than the Indians, hysterical missionaries broke down their religion, and civilized diseases destroyed their bodies...