Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly share your optimism that "Spain is an awakening land." The brutal fact is that Spain still remains dormant, a tragedy to the Western world since 1939. The alliance of the Spanish church, the military leaders and the monarchists will certainly find the means to continue the vicious circle in which the country finds itself. Ideas and men make a nation, and unfortunately Spain has neither...
...proviso: "I will not hesitate to return to the Congress for additional appropriations or additional revenues if they are needed." They may be needed if the peace offensive fails and the war worsens in Viet Nam-and the President pulled no punches in detailing the hard realities of that "brutal and bitter conflict...
...this brutal and senseless real-life event Truman Capote has built his latest book. It would be hard to imagine a more implausible crime reporter. Though Capote had ventured into non-fiction before, his reputation had been secured by short novels (The Grass Harp, Breakfast at Tiffany's) and stories of such delicacy that their wispy author has been called, among many other things, "the last of the old-fashioned Valentine makers...
Blindman's Buff. At every level, the U.S. is locked in a complex, unpredictable-and brutal-struggle. Last month three U.S. marines and eight South Vietnamese captured by the Viet Cong on a patrol 80 miles southwest of Danang were savagely executed. One American was shot six times in the face at close range. Another's face was hacked beyond recognition with a machete...
...sympathy by playing up the spunk in her role, playing against the saccharine. She is achingly real without ever being soppy, whether cursing her fate, dodging flatware during a pitched battle between Winters and Ford, or unemotionally explaining to Poitier that she is "experienced" with men because of a brutal encounter with one of her mother's drunken beaus...