Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion of ideas, grit your teeth and set your heels, tying them up before they escape and presenting the prize in a blue binder and a parade of marching IBM Selectric lines to show you've tamed them. Pretty stupid, thought I... and proceeded to get seized by a brutal addiction to Eric Ambler. I read every damn thing he wrote, practically (even a thesis has its tiny leaks), and I don't even have a magna to show...
...attitude--Arabs tend to smell, for example, and Americans are vulgar and prone to cowboy delusions. There is a mystifying section in The Schirmer Inheritance where a woman whose family has been killed by the Gestapo--a rabid German-hater--falls passionately in love with a dominant and brutal ex-Nazi, as though this is the other side of the coin. But in general Ambler has a wide and realistic understanding of how the world works: each book is rich in historical detail, psychological insight, and another added element which might be called technique--How to do things. The "hero...
...resistance has risen dramatically. Illegal strikes are common--50,000 Africans struck in 1973 despite brutal government oppression. The African National Congress of South Africa, South Africa's liberation movement has waged an underground struggle for 15 years, but was hampered by a lack of safe bases on South Africa's borders until Mozambique won independence last July...
...almost uniformly dark, the villagers the Westerners met in long-organized districts tell of the advantages of the system. They said they were getting better education and eating better, and were immensely proud of their victory." Life is hard in Cambodia. Poverty, forced industrialization, the after effects of a brutal war alone would see to that...
...Frady's examination of Democratic candidates in the current New Times comes down hard on several of them. Says Editor Jonathan Z. (for Zerbe) Larsen: "We want to avoid being trapped in a radical, youthquake rut. We're not conservative by any means, but we can be brutal on liberalism...