Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead of emphathize--or remember. The poignant moments--like John Kennedy Jr.'s salute to his dead father outside of St. Matthew's Cathedral--are preserved. Utterly absurd events are related as well, but Manchester won't allow them to stand for themselves. He adds his own brand of brutal interpretation. He spends, for example, eight pages relating the difficulty Kennedy's staff had when they attempted to leave Parkland Hospital with the President's body and return quickly to Washington. The Dallas County Medical Examiner insisted that a standard, perfectly constitutional state law requiring an on-the-spot autopsy...
...these last years on matters ranging from air attacks on Asian villages to the testimonial contributions of the CIA to the organizations it favors, we have heard the argument that in this world we must be brutal and immoral too. This argument has a great appeal to conservatives--provided, as Barry Goldwater urged, the money is spread around--but a great many liberals have seized upon it as an opportunity for escape from the unnatural constraints of virtue. In the liberal soul too there lurks a little of the late James Bond, coupled perhaps with a few of the more...
Blood-Stained Pants. Miller's ordeal began two days after the brutal crime incensed Canton on a Saturday afternoon in November 1955. Because he had left town Saturday night in one of his boss's cabs, the police suspected Miller and prodded his confused girl friend, Waitress Betty Baldwin, to sign a statement implicating him. After he was arrested, Miller was held incommunicado for 52 hours, denied counsel and told that one of his pubic hairs had been found in the child's vagina. The police assured him that he was mentally ill and would...
...scene took place last week in the office of a new Manhattan organization called Encounter, formed seven months ago in Greenwich Village by three young ex-addicts to combat the growing drug addiction among teenagers. The method is group therapy, and if the approach is brutal, so is the problem. Across the nation, teen-age addiction is soaring, and it is no longer confined to the slums. For in pills and pot and LSD today's teen-agers are finding not only an avenue of escape but a cool symbol of rebellion...
...Moon and Six Guineas is a brittle-brutal study of a once fashionable painter, John Howland, a "Bostonian and Mayflower descendant, educated at Dixwell Latin School and Harvard." He made his first mistake in becoming an artist; his second was to leave-together with his corny canvases-a portfolio of pornographic sketches. His daughter and heir destroy this Back Bay smut. The Auchincloss irony? That the smut just might have restored the reputation of Howland's square work in today's crooked intellectual auction room...