Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite consistently brutal reviews, Maid has played to six million people, and started Ozark-born Playwright Parrish on the way to becoming a hillbillionaire. In Manhattan last week, the management advertised "Seats Now Selling 8 Years in Advance," with "Special Spicy Mats...
Confessional Clichés. As a running news story, it was short on facts. Fingerprints seemed to tie 17-year-old Collegian William George Heirens to the brutal Suzanne Degnan murder, perhaps to a couple of others. When word got around that he had talked (after an injection of sodium pentothal), headline writers" decided it was a confession, dusted off their favorite cliches about "truth serums...
This unusual song-selling technique keeps the story moving with carefree charm. But it's brutal on the tunes. Of all eight new Kern melodies (including the already popular All Through the Day and In Love in Vain), not one sounds good enough to compete with Ol' Man River or Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
...classes of the community are busy arguing that if only they are given a little bit more in the way of incentive (at the expense of the rest of the community) they will respond with more activity. ... But it is probably more realistic (though it has that touch of brutal cynicism that is so much frowned upon these days) to hold that the stick is likely to be more effective than the carrot. It may be true that one reason why people will not work hard is that they can buy so little with their wages. But it is much...
...speech last week, Miko added a postscript to the message: "There are those who ask what we, the unarmed, can do, although there are millions of us, when brutal force attacks us. I told [Communist Vice Premier Wladyslaw] Gomulka: 'You cannot shoot...