Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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America has not always been even this tolerant. In World War I 142 CO's were sentenced to life imprisonment. (They were eventually pardoned.) Norman Thomas writes describing the brutal treatment of CO's in training camps: "Men were forcibly clad in uniform, beaten, pricked or stabbed with bayonets, jerked about with ropes around their necks, threatened with summary execution, tortured by various forms of the 'water cure.' In at least two cases men were immersed in the filth of latrines, one of them head downward...
...awesome calm of Indian art often bewilders Western viewers. The gods -- the usual subject of Indian paintings and sculpture -- maintain an expression of cosmic serenity even when engaged in brutal battle or erotic activity. Many Westerners find the lush anatomy and serpentine lines oversensuous and corrupt, and on the whole the Indian aesthetic does not correspond to anything which is immediately meaningful to Western eves. The meaning and beauty of Indian art eludes anyone untutored in the thought from which the artists proceeded...
Distorted Picture. Why did Hanoi open its doors to selected visitors? It obviously hoped that by controlling their movements they would get a view of U.S. bombing as ineffectual against military targets and brutal against civilians. It hoped, by this distorted picture, to reinforce the widely held impression that the U.S. is a big powerful nation viciously bombing a small, defenseless country into oblivion, and thus spur international demands...
...permits male homosexual relations in private between consenting adults. But there has been no relaxation of penalties for indecent acts committed in public, and offenses against youths under 21 are dealt with more harshly than before. What the bill does, says Laborite Sponsor Leo Abse, is remove the"brutal choice" that offered the would-be law-abiding homo "either celibacy or criminality, and nothing in between...
...calls it football, and plays it with a passion that rises to fever heat in midsummer, when 16 of the world's top teams assemble to run off the world series of soccer. Last summer the series was held in England, and it produced some of the most brutal and brilliant football of the decade...