Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schedule. De Gaulle counseled haste with good reason: as the lowest-cost producer of the Six, France stands to benefit the most from free farm trade within the community, and from farm exports outside the Common Market as well. For this reason, De Gaulle has used every brutal lever at his command, including a threat to quit the E.E.C., to force upon his Common Market partners agreements so far covering three-fourths of the bloc's farm products. Recently De Gaulle has been pressing loudly for the whole...
...women, his dash and daring and smartness combined with toughness, make him every inch a hero of our time," he also notes that "insofar as one can focus on so shadowy and unreal a character, he is utterly despicable: obsequious to his superiors, pretentious in his tastes, callous and brutal in his ways, with strong undertones of sadism, and an unspeakable cad in his relations with women, toward whom sexual appetite represents the only approach...
...Haiti, bloody rebellions drove out the European governors, first the French in 1809, then the Spanish who had tried to reassert their dominion. No sooner had the Dominican Republic declared its independence in 1821 than it was invaded by neighboring Haiti, which occupied the country for 22 brutal years. The Haitians banned all foreign priests, severed papal relations, closed the University of Santo Domingo, and levied confiscatory taxes. Not until 1844, when Haiti was torn by one of its many civil wars, did the Dominican Republic finally break free?only to stagger through 22 revolutions over the next 70 years...
...characters who dominate the book. Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners. On Wall Street meanwhile, his cousin Joshua Ching is even more brutal and even more successful...
...insurgent passengers is shot. Cortazar makes his point with considerable force: honor is easily fuddled, cowardice breeds comfortably, human society is both the condition and the result of the breeding. The Winners is an impressive novel, but it lacks the starkness that made Ship of Fools so brutal and so disturbing...