Word: brutalize
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...difference between a Harvard conversation on racism and conversations in the "real world" is that the former is often a careful, non-offensive one, while the latter are filled with brutal honesty. Paradoxically, racists who do not care whom they offend, can talk more openly about hatred between ethnicities than the individual who is attempting to see all sides of the issues. And people who are confronted by racism everyday are not embarrassed talking about something which concerns their most basic relationships with other people...
...racism (couched in the safe term of "diversity") in an official setting of proctor groups and surrounded by peers who are still strangers, first-years could not be expected to engage in truly candid discussion. Even if important issues were discussed, they were probably not discussed with the brutal honesty of two co-workers who could speak their mind without the worry of offending each other...
Recently, it could be said, similar acclaim has emerged for writers from former Eastern European bloc countries. Names such as Kundera, Pavic, and Kadare have become more familiar to Western ears, and are strangely reminiscent of Latin American novels in their depictions of brutal political repression and the concurrent intellectual resistance. Although they draw upon strong and diverse national literary traditions, writers such Ismail Kadare can be considered part of a distinctively Eastern European group of writers finally gaining the international recognition they deserve...
Unsurprisingly, Riefenstahl refuses to see this Wonderful Horrible Life. "I cried, and they filmed it," she says. "He was brutal." But perhaps this woman whose best hours were spent looking at film could look at this one. It adapts her supple camera style and keen editing eye to an amazing subject. It could be the last great Leni Riefenstahl film...
...back at the forces that struck Americans virtually guarantees that the wrong lesson will be learned. The world's other mischief-makers will have no fear, says Kissinger, until the U.S. reduces Aidid's "power base so that it's apparent that when you tackle the U.S. in the brutal way in which it has been done, there is a penalty...