Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A brutal tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised by Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych's stark symbolism to a high level of creative cinema...
...execution of the correspondents was one of the more brutal acts of a brutal enemy. "Obviously the men did not know that the Viet Cong held the street," William Rademaekers, TIME bureau chief in Saigon, reported last week. "And in the shifting nature of the war, where one street is secure at 9 a.m. and V.C.-held at 10, they cannot be accused of naivete or recklessness. The fighting is inevitably close in, and the chances of getting caught in a crossfire are immeasurably greater. Street fighting is as new to most correspondents as it is to most...
...largest of all black societies? Or should we take as typical of the Black Experience the Afro-American community which was subjected to chattel slavery for over 200 years, and in the past century has been denied the elemental attributes of modern citizenship and humanity by devious, grotesque, and brutal forms of white racism...
...both stupid and unattractive when a handful of our countrymen, who have read little history or have not understood what they have read, engage in public self-flagellation, declaring in sanctimonious tones that American policy is thoroughly in the wrong and that we as a nation are as brutal and viciously ambitious as the other side." The U.S., he said, could ill afford to "lead from weakness or out of a sense of discouragement or despair...
Endecott-played by Kenneth Haigh with the weary administrative sanity of Shaw's Caesar-is aware of the mourn ful carnage of retribution and revenge, and initially is reluctant to take any brutal measures against the colony. But then a clerical emissary from England arrives to announce that King Charles I intends to revoke the charter of the Massachusetts Colony and place it under the direct rule of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Morton taunts Endecott with this promise of lost authority, and suddenly the Governor becomes as steely as his armor. Delivering a flaming polemic against the King...