Word: brutalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the exhibition opened at Manhattan, supercilious critics expressed a mild surprise that the Italian sculptor Wildt had managed to get so brutal and unflattering a likeness of Il Duce past the Fascist censor. They dismissed the bust as an unpleasant thing to look upon and turned away...
...born, prematurely but alive, in a desert railway shed. The boy is not found. Back on the farm, Mary's hatred for Elliott shades into insane belief in the boy's return, insanity that rasps into Elliott until answering hatred is aroused in him. Their lives stand stark, brutal, and he blurts out?something that overshadows his ineffectualness and her pettiness, a fact terrible enough to make them see themselves pinned together inseparably in the vise called Life...
...rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when Michel enters. This brutal lover suggests stealing the cross from dead Agnes' breast. To prevent such blasphemy, Toinette rings the convent bell. Michel stops her and she cries out, "I'm done for." Contrast this with the ending of Il Pagliacci, "La comedia è finita...
...king among a gang of pickpockets and confidence men, posing as a domestic group. Leatrice Joy, known in Hollywood as the woman who divorced Jack Gilbert before he had played in "The Merry Widow", is chief bandit in this picture. Bad as she may have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination. The native girl did wing her once...
What do these men think of football? Not that it is a giant trust or a brutal show of beer and brawn. They like the game. It is good to watch. Besides, it makes for unity within colleges and for friendship between different crowds of men in different colleges. The only trouble with it, they suggest, is that the game has become a circus. Perhaps, judging from the resolutions they agreed upon, this does justice to their way of thinking: "We're not in college to be grinds: but we are in college, after all, to sharpen our wits...