Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That may help to explain their brutal reprisals against the men, women and children of a refugee village that they hosed down with flamethrowers last week; it may also account for an upsurge in defections under the "open arms" program (see THE WORLD...
...record numbers. Bonnie and Clyde also stirred up a battle among movie critics that seemed to be almost as violent as the film itself. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times was so offended by it that he reviewed it-negatively-three times. "This blending of farce with brutal killings is as pointless as it is lacking in taste," he wrote. TIME'S review made the mistake of comparing the fictional and real Bonnie and Clyde, a totally irrelevant exercise. Newsweek panned the film, but the following week returned to praise...
...brief drama, shown recently on CBS evening news, has been replayed in a hundred variations since TV turned its cameras on the war. The principals may change, the settings may alter, but the essentials are always the same: destruction and death, horror and heroics in a brutal struggle against an unseen enemy of unknown character. The TV correspondents, stern faced and looking somehow too neat and clean-shaven, are omnipresent. But their words, imposed on scenes of stark and often shocking realism, seem superfluous. They say that U.S. casualties have risen 15% over a previous month, that the Army uses...
...stories on the economic and political rehabilitation of Viet Nam. Yet there is little likelihood that the TV news shows will curb their compulsion to run those blood-flecked combat scenes. The labor and expense of filming and transportation are too great, and the competition between the networks too brutal to drop them. Walter Cronkite thinks they may bring about a "general revulsion" against war, which may be too much to expect, since they by no means tell the whole story of Viet Nam. But even in their fragmentary form, they tend to discomfit the stay-at-homes...
...receive one of the Fields Medals, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.S In Moscow, Smale, pointing, as he put it, to "a real danger of a new McCarthyism in America," denounced both "American military intervention in Vietnam" as "horrible" as well as what he termed the "brutal intervening" of Russian troops in Hungary in 1956. 'Never," Smale said, "could I see justification for military intervention, 10 years ago in Hungary or now in the much more dangerous and brutal American intervention in Vietnam...