Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brutal fact of nature is that the sea each year claims more than it gives. Ever since the end of the last ice age-when the grinding action of glaciers against rocks created much of the world's present sand-the oceans have been steadily rising. Fed by slowly melting ice, the level of the seas is now 300 ft. above what it was 18,000 years ago, and is still creeping up at something like 9 in. a century. If man is to keep his beloved beaches, he will have to continue the costly process of reclaiming sand...
...this is his message, Bufiuel dresses it up in Belle de Jour with unaccustomed cinematic smoothness. Instead of the brutal bludgeoning in black-and-white that audiences have come to expect from such Bufiuel classics as Viridiana or Los Olvidados, Belle de Jour is composed in color with an eye to elegance that is well suited to the cool beauty of Deneuve...
...King assassination and the subsequent riots have reinforced a world image of America the Violent: a vast, driving, brutal land that napalms Vietnamese peasants and murders its visionaries along with its Presidents. It is an image that has been persistently built up not only by bloody fact but also by fiction-in books, films and television-all the way from the westerns through the gangster stories to the more recent outpouring of sadomasochism that seems to demand a new legal definition of obscenity as cruelty. When new events put exclamation points behind the impression, and Negro Militant H. Rap Brown...
...Brutal Diagnosis. The need is urgent because Israel's economy has been ailing for months. During its early years of headlong economic growth-at average rates of 9% a year-Israel's imports raced beyond its exports, resulting in a chronic balance of payments deficit. To right the balance, the country in 1965 resorted to a tough dose of economic mitun (restraint), which slowed inflation, though at the cost of a standstill economy and mounting unemployment (now 8%) in Israel's 927,000-man labor force. Mitun was a casualty of the Six-Day War, as Israel...
When he called in 50 businessmen for an economic conference soon after the war, Eshkol got a brutal diagnosis of the country's ills. They complained that exports were hopelessly hobbled by high taxes, government meddling and Israel's undisciplined labor force. More serious, they said, was the fact that Israel could never hope to attract more than sentimental investment in its private sector while its socialist system encouraged control of 24% of the nation's overall production by Histadrut, the nationwide labor confederation, and government ownership of such key industries as aircraft and mining...