Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small airstrip near Cap Haitien. There one and possibly two other larger planes had just landed with 20 well-armed men, probably trainees from secret camps in the Bahamas. Thus last week, for the eighth time in ten years, began another attempt by Haitian exiles to topple the brutal and corrupt government of Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
...time, calm seemed to be returning to Columbia University. Last week, though, the troubled Morningside Heights campus was shaken by another ugly, brutal pitched battle between students and police-providing a clear indication that the university's problems are far from over...
Last year it was The Dirty Dozen. This year it is the filthy 1,500, a mixed bag of World War II regimental rejects who hate the brass en masse. As in Dozen, they are given a last chance to shape up or ship out. Under the brutal direction of their hard-nosed but inexperienced commander (William Holden), they decide that valor is the better part of discretion, and begin playing soldiers in earnest...
...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A brutal tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised to a high level of creative cinema by Writer-Director Zbynek Brynych's stark symbolism...
More than that, people with contacts in Washington can sense the mood of that city well--it is vicious. Washington in May--in any other year a beautiful place for a campaign--is in 1968 angry and gloomy and brutal...