Word: brutalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mistaking his rank," said a friend; "and those who do know him are never reminded of it." In press and pulpit, he was an outspoken opponent of coeducation, woman suffrage, British rule in Ireland, divorce ("the modern attitude makes a joke of the sacrament of matrimony"), sexy and brutal movies. He once denied a murdered gangster a Christian burial...
...World War I, a young French stretcher-bearer got to thinking about life and art. People who wage war, he reasoned, are messy inside and out, but the precise, blankly implacable machines they kill with have a brutal beauty. Ever since then, Fernand Léger (rhymes with beige hay) has been painting flat, bright-colored pictures which look as smoothly efficient, and as difficult to comprehend, as the instrument panel...
...deceived by the "strategy of camouflage" to which the regime had turned after the failure of Germany in the Ardennes. It was still the same old spotted cat. "By its brutal use of force and terrorist methods to strike down all opposition from the Argentine people* the military regime has made a mockery of its pledge to the United Nations 'to reaffirm faith in human rights' in the dignity and worth of the human person...
...myriad islands in the mid-Pacific, few have had a more colorful history than little Kusaie, a six-by nine-mile dot in the Carolines. Americans were the first white men there, in 1806. Brutal, roisterous, buccaneering crews of U.S. whaling ships turned the gentle natives into fierce killers. For years Kusaie was an island of savagery...
From knob head to lion feet, Benediction's brutal, bulbous charms were probably lost on the average layman. Most frequent questions by museumgoers: "Is it harping or scratching?" "Why has it got three legs?" If its sculptor, 54-year-old Jacques Lipchitz, had been there to explain, he would have told them that what looks like a third leg is really a simplified drapery...