Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe had also been taken for granted as an irreversible reaction to the harsh rigidities of the Stalinist past. The softening of Communism ("They are getting more like us, and we are getting more like them") had become one of the dubiously hopeful cliches of the day. In one brutal night's work, Moscow undercut, if it did not erase, all such assumptions. For all the changes, the Soviet Union still could not bear the contagion of freedom from Czechoslovakia spreading into other Eastern European countries and into Russia itself (see THE WORLD...
...Surprisingly few. Oh, some things backfire. Like reviews. I feel in a review I have a right to be as brutal as I want to, especially with television because it's such a crappy medium. So I did a review of a Nancy Sinatra television special and I said no matter how much of her father's money she spends on herself she still looks like a pizza waitress. Well, Nancy Sinatra has a lot of friends out here. I've gotten some nasty phone calls and a few letters...
...Pope says there's a way for birth control. Yes, let's tell the Pope to talk about fertile periods with an illiterate woman and talk about abstinence with a drunken and brutal man who keeps his woman like a slave...
Judged by their ebullient mood, the Russians seemed to be celebrating a victory of their own. But the victory last week clearly went to the Czechoslovaks, who for weeks have been under brutal pressures from Moscow to abandon their program of democratic reforms. Earlier in the week, the largest delegation of the Soviet Politburo ever to travel abroad together went to the tiny railroad junction of Cierna nad Tisou in Czechoslovakia to try to force the regime in Prague to back down and reimpose many of the old restrictions on freedom that Dubček has removed. When the confrontation...
...take offense at your statement "Without question, New York City police used extreme, sometimes brutal tactics ... at Columbia University." These "brutal tactics" you refer to caused one police sergeant to be hospitalized after students stomped on his chest. Another officer was hospitalized after a student jumped on his back-from a second-story window. This officer is now virtually paralyzed -unable to sit or stand without excruciating pain. These policemen were just doing their jobs-and without nightsticks, I might...