Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab-Israeli war in 1967, a well-meaning Christian friend asked Jewish Scholar Abraham J. Heschel why he was "so dreadfully upset." Heschel thought for a moment. Then he replied gently: "Imagine that in the entire world there remains one copy of the Bible, and suddenly I see a brutal hand seize this copy, the only one in the world, and prepare to cast it into the flames...
...femininity, however, that is endangered. We are not suddenly aware of the prison of this University. What is endangered is the trust and openness of this place, such as it is; we are trapped by a wall of blindness that wants to "involve" us, to make us blind and brutal too. It may have succeeded...
...Riot Control," a collage of ads from a police journal promoting riot control weaponry interspersed with still shots of the 1967 Newark revolt, was a warning that further explosions in the ghetto will be met with an escalation of brutal repression. Though effective in presenting its message, it could have been done by a white cameraman sensitive to the subject. The film's rhythm, its irregularity notwithstanding, was not the prototype of a new concept. Its impact upon the audience was electric; but the film hardly represented a new genre of cinematography...
...decision may well inflame political passions among the Dominicans, who have a historic distaste for presidential re-elections. It was shaped during the brutal reign of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who was elected President in 1930 and kept on getting himself or his confederates re-elected until assassins' bullets cut him down...
Yale can only play the role of the spoiler in today's encounter. The Elis, 1-10 overall, have scored their only victory over punchless Columbia. Yale's nightmare season has included drubbings, by Rutgers, Princeton, Penn, and Brown, and one brutal week early in the season in which the Elis were shut out 36-0, 34-0, and 37-0, by strong teams from Army, Lehing, and Iowa, respectively...