Word: brutalize
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...have few illusions of farm life. It's a good life, but I think it has much of the drudgery of industrial existence without some of the compensations. It's a brutal life. I lived on a farm, but am really not myself a rural creature. I really love New York City...at any rate I'm not sure that rural life or a big commune is an answer...The earth and agriculture are an index of something we need and are rapidly losing, the human animal is geared to interlock with all kinds of raw natural environments. The coming...
...wealth, resulting in the callous elimination of more tribal peoples. It is a familiar story, especially to North Americans, who had the despair of their dead Indians raised to a grand passion in last year's bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Bodard's brutal epic does even more. It gives North Americans a rerun of their own haunted past as seen through Brazil's uneasy present...
...principal case now before the Supreme Court chillingly demonstrates another kind of horror. By all the evidence, Ernest James Aikens Jr. is a brutal and remorseless killer of at least three people. He beat, raped and stabbed to death two women, one of them a neighbor in her 60s, the other five months pregnant. He also shot a homosexual who had picked him up on the road. Psychiatrists have unanimously pronounced him fearfully sane and unlikely ever to be rehabilitated...
...otherwise. Several of his film reviews are "automatic criticism," relating not to the work at hand but to mere opinionation. A review of Persona is remarkably evasive, a Bergman beatification with nothing but gratitude to show for itself. Attacking film violence, he hits some home truths about its brutal, de-personalizing necessities, but is too general and removed from specific detail to be persuasive. One of his Common weal theater pieces is, in fact, a conscious (and hilarious) demonstration of how unexamined criticism comes to be written when the drama considered is flaccid...
...basic issues: absolute neutrality between East and West and trade with the Common Market. Rather like Greta Garbo. Finland vants to be left alone, but it cannot afford to be. Sharing 788 miles of its 1,583-mile frontier with the Soviet Union, with whom it fought brutal losing wars in 1939-43, Finland is secure only while remaining neutral...