Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that they will not be able to carry out all the reforms they want, especially in the stagnant economy, until Novotny and his apparatchik cronies are uprooted from the government. Other Czechoslovaks simply want to banish the remaining vestiges of what had been a humorless and, at times, brutal regime. "Those who have lost the trust of the people," says Professor Ota Sik, author of the economic reforms that Novotny opposed, "must be driven from positions of trust...
Disengagement from Vietnam is a prerequisite for any real attack on the conditions and attitudes that keep black Americans economically and socially submerged. Here, Kennedy has taken a strong stand. The war, as he sees it, is brutal, wasteful folly. There is no reason to believe that he would not push for a speedy settlement in Southeast Asia. He realizes the costs of Vietnam and has admitted the shortsightedness of the policy his borther pursued before November, 1963. Kennedy knows the lessons of foreign adventurism and military overextension. And his past experience with the Pentagon and State Department means that...
...learned to play football in the Boston preparatory schools organized a game on the Cambridge Common without Administration protests. In no time, the new "Boston Game" became quite the Cambridge rage. Although the rules had changed little since the era of "Bloody Monday," the action was somehow less brutal. The players organized the Harvard University Football Club in December 1872, electing officers and codifying the traditional rules. Shortly afterward, Harvard declined Yale's desperate invitation to the Intercollegiate Association...
...voodoo ceremony--most Haitians are Catholic, but voodoo practice is widespread--shows another form of the people's life-affirmation. The sacrifice of animals and the drinking of hot blood are brutal aspects of voodoo, but in essence the ceremony is a celebration. The villages gather together around the pounding voodoo drums, and the dancing and singing are frenzied...
This play by Jakov Lind, an Austrian Jew who now lives in London, is a brutal, bitter, boring and unsubtle savaging of German-or is it Western?-culture. Fortunately, it is also a brilliant production, supervised by Central Park's old Shakespeare wallah, Joseph Papp...