Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While America gave Rhinoceros its warmest reception anywhere, critics and audiences seemed to misunderstand it as light comedy. To Ionesco, it was a brutal metaphor for what happened in Romania under fascism and communism. In a journal dated "around 1940," he wrote, "The police are rhinoceroses. The judges are rhinoceroses. You are the only man among the rhinoceroses. The rhinoceroses wonder how the world could have been led by men. You yourself wonder: Is it true that the world was led by men?" The horror behind this question never left. Ionesco's jokes were those of nearly all the 20th...
...Duty (Knopf; 425 pages; $23), demonstrates that he made the right career move. The novel picks up Kai's story in 1964, when he arrives at West Point to honor his father's wish that he become a professional soldier. As a plebe, Kai is once again subjected to brutal treatment, and as America steps up its involvement in Vietnam, he again must struggle to reconcile the Asian and the American aspects of his identity...
...world's media were flooded with bloody, unforgettable images from South Africa: two white, neo-Nazi militiamen -- wounded in a gun battle with black troops in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana -- were executed in front of a crowd of stunned photojournalists. What was it like to record this brutal scene? Time's Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod asked several of the photographers involved...
...Montezuma II hostage, but after Montezuma died during an uprising of the Mexica, apparently from wounds inflicted by his own people, the Spaniards were driven from the city. The undaunted Cortes returned with a larger force that included disaffected Indian vassals of the Mexica. In the course of a brutal seige, Tenochtitlan and the old Mexican empire were destroyed...
Books: The brutal conquest of Mexico...