Word: brutalize
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...environment have often taken refuge in the palliative image of the voyage. The literature of Britain, for example, is lush with attempts by writers to flee the island's wave-beaten shores on the wings of poesy. Joseph Conrad's Jim leaves Victorian propriety behind him to become a brutal lord among primitive East Indies tribesmen. D.H. Lawrence's characters trek to all parts of the globe in search of a primeval energy lacking in Edwardian drawing rooms. Malcolm Lowry's consul seeks to escape from the gentility of Georgian society by drinking himself into a stupor under the volcanoes...
Golf isn't exactly as brutal as football, as gruelling as cross coontry or as dependent on teamwork as soccer. The practices aren't quite as demanding as they are for crew, or hockey for example...
Beginning with the noblest of motives-examination of the roots and consequences of the Viet Nam War-this vigorous, chaotic documentary manipulates time for its own ends. The bombing of Haiphong harbor, John Foster Dulles' domino theory, J. Edgar Hoover's fears of "common-ists," a brutal football game, '40s war movies-all flow back and forth like sand in an hourglass. The confusion is deliberate. Hearts and Minds, says Producer-Director Peter Davis, "is not a chronology of war so much as a study of people's feelings...
...indeed the slushy ice surface and the elbow merchants from Ithaca, N.Y., took their toll Friday night. ("It was a very, very brutal game," Thomas said.) But nobody is buying it as the reason for such a convincing defeat, least of all Roth. "Bullshit" was all he had to say about using the Cornell game as a lone excuse...
...Amnesty. Like many other witnesses, Wicker believes that the bloodshed and the brutal reprisals by guards and state troopers would have been postponed and possibly avoided if only New York State's Governor Nelson Rockefeller had agreed to come to Attica. At the time, Rockefeller said he did not believe he had the constitutional power to grant blanket amnesty to the rebels-especially since one of the guards had already died in the hospital after his skull was fractured at the beginning of the riot. In Rockefeller's action-a euphemistic order to "reopen the institution"-Wicker sees...