Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly had already passed eleven resolutions on Hungary, including those condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian rebellion last fall and demanding that the Soviets withdraw. The Soviets ignored them all. But to keep the crime of Hungary before world opinion, the U.S rallied 37 nations to sponsor still another resolution...
...Gogol published the first part of his greatest work. Dead Souls, a novel that brilliantly exposed a brutal anachronism of Russian life: serfdom. Serfs, like any other property, could be mortgaged. Gogol introduced a sort of Russian spiv who speculated in "dead souls,'' i.e., defunct but still financially negotiable persons...
...many parts of this planet men of every color and background are awakening to the immeasurable worth of a free way of life. They are coming to know that through education and enterprise this free way of life can be possible for all. They are revolted by the brutal use of force to repress freedom under totalitarian dictatorships...
...Seed" [July 8] is a sad story of a brutal father and of boys who had "the urge to kill." What's next for the boys? Years in jail, probably. Meantime, the Army will draft many other boys who have only a horror of killing; why not make boys like Ray Edwards and Marty Daniels professional soldiers? In the Army, they would have the respect of society instead of its condemnation...
...picture is gratuitously brutal and malicious, serving no decent purpose. The child will never live it down...