Word: brutalize
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PERHAPS ONE OF the most curious parts of the week's news coverage was the media's failure to play up the brutal attack of a black schoolgirl by a gang of white youths wielding baseball bats and rubber hoses. The failure to adequately report this and several other incidents involving white attackers brought charges of racist reporting. The Progressive Labor Party dramatized their notion of a "conspiracy to stir up racial violence" by taking over The Boston Globe's advertising office and demanding that the Globe print a PLP statement denouncing the coverage...
...Though both Egypt and Syria insisted that invading Israeli troops had started the war, the evidence clearly indicated that the fourth Arab-Israeli war in 25 years had been launched by a massive Arab invasion. Within 24 hours, Israeli troops had stemmed the Arab thrust and were delivering a brutal counterattack...
...with mob warfare, that keeps Lou (Bronson) shuttling between New York and Los Angeles, getting blood on his own hands from time to time. The plot is infernally tangled and unrelieved by humor. There is a good, loud, nasty showdown in a subterranean garage, and an effectively brutal scene of a mass mob assassination. The Mafiosi, portrayed with almost parodistic seriousness by the likes of Martin Balsam and Alfred Ryder, hire Viet Nam veterans to do their dirty work, a bit of practicality that also passes for covert social comment. The Stone Killer concludes in sober fashion with a sermon...
...children also suffer this. On the basis of only these simple examples, we have to understand that when we talk about an involved university, we are not only talking of a university that understands that in order to end this brutal reality that has weighed heavily on us for more than a century and a half, the economic changes will require professional people involved with social change. The future is going to require a professional who is not going to feel superior because his parents had enough money to send him to college. We need a professional with social awareness...
...will to act, the decisiveness and the revolutionary conscience of Fidel Castro? And why has he not taken back Guantanamo Bay from the United States? Because he cannot and should not do it; and he cannot do it because he will expose his revolution and his country to a brutal retaliation...