Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace settlement at least has ended the war's most brutal aspects. When Congress eventually cuts off the aid which props up the Thieu regime, the Vietnamese can bind up their wounds and follow their dreams in developing their society. Justice has been sidetracked temporarily in Chile, but justice is winning in Vietnam, and the rest of us have learned something about the impregnability of the human spirit...
Throughout his career on The Times, Reston has chased an elusive vision of America. Gay Talese wrote in his study of The Times, The Kingdom and the Power, that Reston's America "was a land in which the citizens seemed not so disenchanted, the police not so brutal, the United States's bombing in Vietnam not entirely unjustified, the politicans in Washington not so self-serving, the age of Jefferson not so long ago or lost in essence...
...persons have been charged for crimes under the rubric of Watergate, and many others-such as H.R. Haldeman, the former White House chief of staff-have hired lawyers to protect themselves. Private legal fees can be brutal, as Spiro Agnew learned while running up bills reliably reported to total $200,000. Former White House Counsel John Dean has probably incurred bills of $50,000. John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former chief domestic adviser, is fighting court actions on both coasts that may already have cost him $100,000. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt charged $125,000 to defend four Watergate...
...really wowed me with the whammy you whacked on The Exorcist [Jan. 14]. What the devil got into you? For those who appreciated the film as a brutal but brilliant portrayal of the power of faith in God, I say a hex on you, Jay Cocks...
...extraordinary number of people who had known or met him. Sir Roger Casement seemed the Edwardian era's parfit gentil knight. Handsome, beguiling, dedicated and quixotic, he spent his life, fragile health and meager income tilting not against windmills but against millstones: the brutal burdens loaded on colonialized peoples by their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish...