Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chance enters the picture. Every UHS doctor brings to his cubicle in Hoyloke Center a different combination of personality, attitudes, and professional experience. Each reacts differently to your request. One may be brusque, almost brutal. He asks you if you have ever been pregnant or when you are planning to get married. Another may be solicitous, concerned to find out if you are sure, perhaps trying tactfully to change your mind...
...should do extremely well at East Lansing, the 5-9 ace may compete in the TTU meet during Spring Vacation Otherwise he will get some rest after a brutal four hours of practice in preparation for the Nationals...
DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brief, brutal encounter on a subway train that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching around a curve...
...Light on History. As the person closest to Stalin during much of his brutal, 30-year reign, Svetlana could well shed much light on shrouded facets of Soviet political history. She was just a young girl when Stalin launched his bitter purge of the 1930s. Even after Stalin's death she was close to the men who ran the Kremlin-until the mid-1950s, when Khrushchev suddenly launched his destalinization program. It was possibly the Soviet's destalinization, in fact, that prompted Svetlana to defect. No one, of course, could be sure. Like almost everything connected with...
...Taste of Power traces a Communist tough's devious path to a cell at the top, first as a hard-drinking guerrilla fighter, then as a brutal apparatchik. Mňačko weaves a picture of a pathetic, subhuman instrument of an inhuman system that ultimately traps and isolates him. Unlike some Communist contemporaries who view their success from prison,* Mňačko still haunts the Olympia Grill, his favorite bar in Prague, where he is treated like a local hero. "All of the incidents in the book are true," he said last week. "We thought...