Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face Van Dam and many others had cause to remember belonged to Nazi Gynecologist Carl Clauberg, an SS general and onetime chief of the infamous Block Ten medical section at Auschwitz concentration camp, where he carried out brutal sterilization experiments on Jewish women, killing many of them...
After letting him soak in the tub overnight, the girls smuggle the corpse to the school grounds, dump it in the slimy swimming pool. So far, things have merely been brutal. Now Clouzot lights the spirit lamps of the supernatural. When the corpse doesn't float to the surface of the water, the girls drain the pool. There is no dead man at the bottom. Next, a tailor delivers Paul's freshly cleaned and pressed suit to the school. It is the same one he was drowned in. A class photograph is taken; when the picture is developed...
...death from a rotten balcony. Before she herself died (of a migraine), Lettitia 1) dispatched a slave in a quicksand bog, and 2) ordered her personal maid's young daughter into the "stud cabin" in the plantation's slave quarters, where the child died of a brutal raping. Lettitia's penance seems mild in comparison to some others. True, she is occasionally heard screaming in the night, but more often the fire-gutted shell of nearby Rosewell plantation is the scene of ghostly revelries, with the shades of colonial governors, young bloods and belles moving through...
...began its accusations as soon as the body was found, despite the fact that every person and organization in the state let out a cry against the murder. People from all types of occupations were asked about the Till case, and no one came near condoning such a brutal and senseless crime. The NAACP's continuing protest, however, turned the outrage over the crime into an outrage over its won accusation...
...Hatful of Rain (by Michael V. Gazzo) concerns a drug addict. Young Johnny Pope picked up the habit while a hospitalized war veteran, shook it off, and now-with his wife expecting a child -is on the needle again. Tormented by his cravings, he is also tormented by the brutal, scrounging pushers who can supply the drugs. His well-meaning brother knows of his vice and has given him money for it; his unhappy wife does not know and can only blame some unknown woman for his neglect and his absences from home. Out of such a situation emerges...